15 differences between traditional Waterfall and Agile Scrum approach
The below table provides a quick comparison of the plan-driven Waterfall and Agile Scrum approach for product development:
Plan-Driven Approach |
Scrum Approach |
|---|---|
| Encourages conformance to processes and tools | Encourages people interactions |
| Comprehensive Documentation | Working Software |
| Restricts new ideas | Encourages experimentation and new ideas |
| Process centric environment | People centric environment |
| Contract negotiation | Customer collaboration |
| Conform to a plan | Embrace change |
| Requires continuous effort to motivate the team members | High performing, self-organizing, and motivated team |
| Late changes require huge rework | Late changes are easily adopted with minimal rework |
| High cost of change | Low cost of change |
| Detailed project plan | Just-In-Time planning |
| Large possibility of a mismatch between requirements and the final product | Reduced mismatch between requirements and the final product |
| Likely to have unhappy customers | Likely to have delighted customers |
| Late customer feedback | Fast and frequent customer feedback |
| Requires upfront decisions | Decisions wait till the last responsible moment (LRM) |
| Low interaction with business sponsors | High collaboration with Product Owner |
