What are the advantages of agile methods over waterfall development methods, such as the traditional SDLC?...

What are the advantages of agile methods over waterfall development methods, such as the traditional SDLC? What are the risks?

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Waterfall method allows us to create a process which makes use of iterations which works as a principle of performing a task before going on to the one that depends on it. Agile methods allow us to understand a problem and deal with it as soon as possible since we can create a structure which can go back and forth between the different tasks in order to implement the best strategy which can create the product faster.

The benefits of agile over waterfall method are:-

1. The speed of development is more using the agile method since we are not dependent on the completion of the previous tasks.

2. Agile has a more free structure and we can employ different teams to perform different functions in order to gain the best possible execution and division of time.

While agile is better in some respect it can create:

1. Problems such as the need for having good communications as well as structure.

2. Can get confusing if the proper structure isn't followed.

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