Adaptive and flexible, the Agile method delivers software that prioritizes speed-of-development.
What is Agile?
Agile is a set of principles guiding software development for flexibility and speed.
In 2001, seventeen developers in Utah established these principles to keep up with the fast-paced innovation of the internet. Traditional methods, like the waterfall model, were too slow, often making products obsolete by launch.
Agile is more than a process; it’s a belief system focusing on quick ideation and prioritizing a working product. At Ventive, all departments, from design to development, use Agile to create MVPs that address clients' most urgent needs.
Feeling like they are a part of my team and their ability to understand my product and industry has been a key part to our success.
Why Agile?
We embrace Agile to develop working products quickly and successfully.
Unlike traditional methods delivering software in years, Agile delivers in months. This approach ensures user feedback is incorporated early, solving problems from the start.
With Agile, we avoid the risk of releasing a product that doesn’t fit the market by regularly checking in with users to ensure a perfect fit from the beginning.
Save money. Deliver faster. Fail less.
What are the core principles of Agile?
By adopting the Agile method, organizations can align their actions with principles that deliver working software.
The Agile Difference Is Quantifiable
Teams using full Scrum improve product quality
Autonomous Agile teams are markedly more productive
Average companies’ revenue increase after moving to Agile
Agile projects fail 3x less than waterfall projects (29%)
What are the core values of Agile?
Understand your users, challenge assumptions, and test before launching your product.
Customer collaboration over contract negotiation
Effective communication between clients, product owners, and project managers is crucial for timely addressing concerns.
Ventive ensures regular virtual or in-person meetings with clear agendas to keep clients informed about progress, changes, and challenges.
We use sprints to consistently deliver products, research, and designs, adapting our communication to meet clients' needs.
Individuals and interactions over processes and tools
A working product is our priority, and we adjust in real time to meet market changes. Agile development ensures the product serves users' needs from day one.
We constantly seek easier and faster ways to achieve project goals. Our flexible team is ready to adapt to ensure a successful product.
Responding to change over following a plan
Our downtown Boise office fosters team synergy, with UX designers and project managers consulting directly, free from departmental barriers. Cross-departmental team-building events strengthen our multi-disciplinary teams.
We innovate to connect remote, in-person, and hybrid employees, ensuring seamless collaboration and on-time, on-spec product delivery.
Working software over comprehensive documentation
You are our focus. We build products to help you serve your customers, delivering what users want.
We quickly deliver an MVP to solve your most pressing problem.
Our team, hired for excellence, brings diverse talents and stays at the industry's forefront through continuous learning.
Top 4 myths that hamper Agile adoption:
The iterative approach can grind to a halt if you get stuck on false beliefs about how Agile is used in software development.
Success can come from various project management principles. Teams don't need to be exclusively Agile; some thrive using a mix of Agile and traditional methods.
Agile isn't necessarily the fastest way to develop software, but it builds on successes iteratively, leading to a better product. Its main benefit is emphasizing a working product.
Self-directed teams choose their tasks. To those used to top-down leadership, Agile may seem chaotic, but its strength lies in teamwork. An in-sync team acts quickly without waiting for leadership.
Agile remains deadline-focused while adapting to changes. It discards irrelevant solutions but maintains hard deadlines, considering the client's needs and investment in the project.
Collaboration is at the heart of the Agile framework. Collaboration between clients and product owners. Between product and design. And between users and owners.
Work with our Agile team
Launch your product faster with our 5x award-winning app development team based in Boise, Idaho. Partner with us to build and scale your digital products, like other businesses that have embraced Agile development, reducing defects and costs.
