If you’re hoping to become agile, you have to get uncomfortable before you break through and find your stride. Agile is all about growth, and in order to grow, you have to adopt new concepts, practices, and techniques that will force you to change what you’re doing in a way that might not come easy.

With the ever-increasing quality standards engrained in the common application user, we’re now at the point where transitioning from the waterfall methodology to the agile methodology isn’t just beneficial—it’s an essential step toward staying afloat in one of the most competitive industries.

Why does software development demand so much speed? We throw around terms like “agile” or “DevOps” and consider that a good enough answer for the demand for speed, but there are three major factors outlined by Mark Levy, the director of strategy at Micro Focus, that call for greater development speed.