Glideship vs Agile
Phase by phase: what sprints and Scrum ask of your team, and what Glideship does for you instead.
Process eats the week. Dates still slip.
Sprints and Scrum were meant to help teams ship. On many teams the meetings, tickets and status updates now take a large share of the week, and large projects still run late and over budget.
of developers lose eight hours or more a week to inefficiencies. That is 20% of their time.
SourceAtlassian, State of Developer Experience 2024· 2,100+ developers and managers
On average, large IT projects run 45% over budget and 7% over time, while delivering 56% less value than predicted.
SourceMcKinsey and the University of Oxford, 2012· 5,400+ IT projects
Industry research from the sources linked above. These are not Glideship results.
Thirteen phases, side by side.
What sprints and Scrum ask of your team at each step, and what Glideship does instead.
| Phase | Scrum and Jira | Glideship |
|---|---|---|
| 01 Intake | A Jira ticket, manual triage, then sprint planning | A chat message. The Triage Agent reads it, spots duplicates and checks the team has room |
| 02 Estimation | Story points, planning poker, team debate | Dates for each phase with real odds (50%, 70% and 85% likely), using AI-PERT and Monte Carlo simulation. Takes skills, backlog and workload into account |
| 03 Specification | A PM writes the spec by hand and reviews it in meetings | The BUD Agent drafts the spec from your code, your team's rules and past work |
| 04 Design | A designer starts from scratch, then hands off specs | AI drafts the wireframes. The designer reviews, edits and moves on to the tech plan |
| 05 Tech plan | An architect writes a design doc and reviews it in meetings | AI drafts the tech plan, the tech lead reviews it, and the Smart Assignment Agent suggests a developer |
| 06 Development | A developer picks up a ticket and starts from scratch | The best-fit developer builds from the tech plan, and a person reviews the code |
| 07 Testing | QA writes test cases by hand and reruns old tests | A test plan drafted for you: unit, integration, end-to-end, performance, security and UAT |
| 08 QA & UAT | A manual handoff from QA to UAT | QA approves or adjusts the test plan, runs the manual checks and signs off for UAT |
| 09 Release | Release trains and manual status updates | The Status Agent spots merged pull requests, and the BUD becomes a Feature when it goes live |
| 10 Bugs | Manual triage, reassigned in standup | Bugs from users reopen the Feature, get labelled and go back through triage |
| 11 Knowledge | Wiki pages go stale, and the rest lives in people's heads | The Learning Agent captures patterns, and knowledge syncs from the code |
| 12 Skills | Manager gut feel and annual reviews | The Skill Agent rebuilds profiles daily from real work and suggests assignments |
| 13 Retrospective | A meeting every two weeks, action items forgotten | The Learning Agent writes a retrospective after every release |
Trade ceremony for shipped software
One command. Needs Docker and Node.js 18 or later. Your code and data stay on your machine. npx glideship init