Why Science-Driven Companies Should Use Agile

Agile methodology has been firmly embraced by organizations in wildly different contexts and competitive situations.  But one area notably absent from the expanding embrace of agile practices and concepts is R&D in science-driven businesses.  While agile and lean prototyping are transforming corporations across industries, science-driven R&D departments have been left, all but untouched, in their ways of working. Given the challenges that most science-driven R&D groups are facing — in pharma and beyond — agile frameworks might provide new value in supporting teams along their journey from groundbreaking scientific discoveries to successful commercial developments.