Maria Matarelli is an international business consultant, experienced Agile Coach, and Certified Scrum Trainer (CST) who consults and trains companies on reaching true agility and getting results. Maria travels to consult Fortune 100 companies and speak at industry conferences with locations from Shanghai to Singapore and Thailand to Nova Scotia. While looking for ways to continue to expand Agile outside IT, Maria and her team have been applying Agile to the Marketing realm with incredible results, which led to Maria co-founding the Agile Marketing Academy. Maria also co-founded the Personal Agility Institute, helping people use Agile to do more of what matters in their lives and shift the culture of organizations. In addition, Maria is the Founder and President of Formula Ink, an international consulting company and is passionate about working with people and organizations to inspire agility.
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Agile approaches to completing work have been known to help people to do more than twice the work in half the time. What could that kind of productivity increase do for your business?
Let’s compare what is different in using an agile approach from traditional project management. A traditional project management approach focuses on gathering all requirements up front, making sure everything is planned out and designed thoroughly and then using a phased approach to develop, test, and launch a product to market.