At that time, people used to call this crisis the “application delivery lag” or “the application development crisis.” At that time, organizations used to estimate three years between a validated business need and an actual application in production.
Even those days, businesses moved faster than three years’ time span.If you had to wait for three years to solve the problems your business faces, your business requirements, systems, and even the entire business can change in three years.
Because of this time crisis, businesses used to cancel many projects halfway.
And many projects failed to match the requirements and needs.In several industries like aerospace and defense industries, the application delivery lag was more than three years.
It would take around 20 years or more than that before a system went into use.Before agile came, several industries like software, aerospace, manufacturing used to follow the waterfall approach.
They would identify problems and work to create a plan that solves the problem.