You were hired into a new company that was impressed with your two years of experience as a Scrum master on a variety of information systems projects. Your new firm has a large in-house information system development staff that is trained and experienced in the use of the Waterfall software development process. You have been assigned responsibility as a Scrum master for a key project that will be the firms first Agile project. You have also been asked to train the project manager, team, and newly appointed product owner in the Agile process and their associated roles and responsibilities.

As part of the teams initial project kickoff meeting, you have been asked to briefly summarize the differences between the Waterfall and Agile software development process. What would you say?

Following your discussion, one of the team members asks, so why are we changing to a new software development process? We are all comfortable with the way we do things now. What do you say?