How to - Sell Agile Part 1 of 2

Today's "How To Thursday" post is about selling agile methodologies.  I happened upon a great series of videos by an agile coach with ProXL Consulting. 

Here are the first two in a series of YouTube videos featuring Raja from ProXL Consulting.  Raja does a great job defining waterfall and describing the challenges or waterfall along with the false assumptions inherent in defenses I've heard of Waterfall methodologies.

Video 1:  Introduction to the Waterfall Model

Video 2:  Problems of Waterfall

Video Link:  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q8G15OVRSvU

Highlight:  Issues of Traditional Software Development

• Unclear Requirements
• Requirements Change
• Lack of Customer Involvement
• Accuracy of Estimation
• Uneven Loading of the Resources
• Last Minute Corrections are Difficult
• Not much time for Testing
• Lots of Documentation
• Schedule and Cost Overruns
• Lots of late Nights Prior to Final Delivery
• Unhappy Customers

Next week - Raja's descriptions of why we should use Agile. . .