The Key to Improving Processes and Growing Your Career

<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The benefits of agile practices are proven and plentiful, yet many companies are still hesitant to adopt them, in part simply because they haven’t learned enough about it yet.  Today Craig Brown and Thom Singer are joined by someone who was willing to try something new, and it has paid off in a big way.  ‘Spanish major turned product geek’ Christian Cox</span> <span style="font-weight: 400;">is the Co-Founder of Piola Digital, a near shore product development agency helping companies build, support and enhance products.  Chris has joined the podcast to highlight these agile practice benefits from the refreshing perspective of someone who does not have an engineering or technology degree.  As a curious learner and perpetual student of his craft, Chris’s experience shows that examining something from a new or different perspective just might be the key to improved processes, decreased time to market, and even greater career opportunities. </span></p> <p> </p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">On today’s podcast, you will learn:</span></p> <p><strong>Key benefits of agile practices</strong></p> <ul> <li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><span style= "font-weight: 400;">Agile development helps customers hone in on what they really need. </span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><span style= "font-weight: 400;">Progress can be measured by tracking agile development. </span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><span style= "font-weight: 400;">Agile practices and predictions can help better plan based on team capacity. </span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><span style= "font-weight: 400;">Business prioritization happens more readily with agile practices. </span></li> </ul> <p> </p> <p><strong>Pitfalls of agile techniques</strong></p> <ul> <li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><span style= "font-weight: 400;">Growing pains are standard as companies continue to implement agile practices. </span></li> <li style="font-weight: