Evaluating the Impact of Converting to Agile on
Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises (SMEs): Is
It Always a Positive Move?

Kingsley Nnaemeka Nwaigbo

MBAR 661 (HBD-SUMMER25-02) : Academic Research Project
Dr. Khazraei, Ali

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Industry

High-Impact Practices

Metric I Watch

Health

Risk-based testing, compliance-by-design, cross-

Cycle time to release; defects in clinical

functional reviews with clinicians.

scenarios.

CI/CD, trunk-based development, automated testing;

Deployment frequency; lead time; change

strong backlog hygiene.

fail rate.

Kanban with WIP caps, supplier collaboration, and on-

Throughput; first-pass yield; downtime

style escalation.

MTTR.

Permit/HSSE integrated into flow, risk pre-mortems for

Risk burndown; schedule adherence;

high-stakes work.

incident rate.

Model-based systems engineering, rigorous change

Nonconformance trends; verification pass

control, verification early.

rate.

Iterative trials, farmer feedback loops, simple mobile

Time-to-validate; adoption rate; cost per

data capture.

outcome.

IT/Software

Manufacturing

Energy

Aerospace

Agriculture

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