Unifying Agile & Waterfall Delivery with monday Dev
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Unifying Agile & Waterfall Delivery with monday Dev

Following TransFunnel's engagement, a SaaS organization modernized its development workflows using monday Dev, bringing sprint planning, backlog prioritization, and release management onto a unified platform. Intelligent automations and integrated pipelines ensured 100% data accuracy, transparent reporting, and complete traceability across development activities. The result was accelerated delivery timelines, improved engineering productivity, and more reliable collaboration between product, QA, and delivery teams

25–30%

Improvement in sprint
predictability

35–40%

Reduction in manual status reporting effort

Driving Engineering Excellence with monday Dev

A technology-driven enterprise delivering a mix of product development (Agile) and client-driven implementations (Waterfall) across multiple teams and geographies. The organization struggled to manage both delivery models using disconnected tools, leading to visibility gaps, delivery delays, and governance challenges.

Challenges

The client was using multiple tools to manage development and delivery, none of which supported hybrid delivery models effectively.

Key Challenges Identified

  • Fragmented delivery tools for Agile sprints and Waterfall project tracking, resulting in siloed data
  • No single view across backlog, sprint progress, releases, and milestones
  • Agile teams lacked sprint-level visibility while leadership needed milestone-based reporting
  • Waterfall projects suffered from poor dependency tracking, leading to frequent timeline slippages
  • Manual status reporting consumed 30–40% of engineering managers’ time
  • Limited visibility into:
    • Sprint velocity and burndown
    • Release readiness
    • Blockers and cross-team dependencies
  • Inconsistent workflows across teams caused low adoption and reporting inaccuracies

Solution Proposed

We implemented monday Dev as a unified delivery platform designed to support both Agile and Waterfall methodologies within a single ecosystem.

  1. Agile Delivery Enablement
    • Configured product backlogs, epics, stories, and sprints using monday Dev boards
    • Enabled sprint planning, velocity tracking, burndown charts, and retrospective insights
    • Automated backlog grooming, sprint rollovers, and status transitions
  2. Waterfall Project Management
    • Designed milestone-based boards for client and internal delivery projects
    • Implemented dependency tracking and phase-gate approvals
    • Enabled Gantt views and timeline forecasting for leadership visibility
  3. Hybrid Governance Model
    • Linked Agile sprint execution with Waterfall milestones
    • Enabled cross-team dependency tracking between product and delivery teams
    • Created executive dashboards combining sprint metrics and milestone progress
  4. Tooling & Automation
    • Integrated monday Dev with GitHub / GitLab / Jira (as applicable)
    • Automated issue updates, release tagging, and status synchronization
    • Used Make.com for cross-team and cross-tool workflows

Key Features Delivered

  • Agile boards for backlog, sprint, and release management
  • Waterfall project boards with milestones and dependencies
  • Unified dashboards for engineering leadership
  • Cross-team dependency visualization
  • Automated sprint and release reporting
  • Integrations with version control and CI/CD tools

Quantitative Outcomes

Within 90 days of implementation, the client achieved:

  • 25–30% improvement in sprint predictability
  • 20–25% reduction in delivery delaysfor Waterfall projects
  • 35–40% reduction in manual status reporting effort
  • 30% improvement in cross-team visibility
  • 90%+ adoptionacross engineering and delivery teams
  • Faster release readiness tracking with real-time insights

Business Impact

  • monday Dev became the single delivery system for Agile and Waterfall teams
  • Leadership gained real-time visibility without manual reports
  • Engineering teams focused more on delivery and less on administration
  • Enabled scalable delivery governance for complex programs

Conclusion

By implementing monday Dev with a hybrid delivery framework, the client eliminated tool sprawl and delivery blind spots. The solution enabled Agile speed, Waterfall governance, and enterprise-level visibility, creating a scalable foundation for predictable, high-quality delivery

"monday Dev finally allowed us to manage Agile sprints and Waterfall projects in one place. The visibility and automation have significantly reduced overhead while improving delivery predictability."