Sprint demos in non-Software Factories

Here, in Argentina, non-software dedicated companies usually overlook small development units, giving more importance to business areas. This happens mostly because a large number of development teams are treated as factories. Who could possibly want to attend to a Sprint Demo?

Business people are unaware, and often they want to stay unaware, of software development processes. They just want to use the final product, not to know if XP programming was used to achieve it.

Imagine a small company where the development team consists of 3 developers and 1 leader (the Scrum Master). All the 100 remaining employees have never went down to the basement (where the Software Department is). Then again, who could possibly care about software tests?

It’s important to decide where to implement agile methodologies, sometimes the environment does not help.