AGILE DEVELOPMENT

Agile Development

Abstract

Agile Development is the concept that we have been hearing for some years. People have not focused on what is the actual meaning of the word “agile” when it is used with development. Development method is said to be agile when it provides continuous delivery of functional software to its customers with maximum satisfaction. Development methodology is agile when there is smooth interaction among individual and process tools. Moreover, working with software over comprehensive documentation is another important area of concern for developers of agile software. Such systems must respond to changes according to customer needs, apart from following a rigid plan. The period came when industries and organizations finally started understanding what this software could do for them and then came the time when techniques and predicting the cost of development projects came into use. The methodology that has been used for many years is known as water fall. Waterfall rarely delivered what the customer wanted where as Agile is able to take customers along with it during each process. The only similarity that can be found between the two approaches is that testing is done in both as it is being developed. The Agile methodology develops the code, defines and run integrated test scripts and verifies results. The customer then identifies any problems with the program and can ask to make fine tune adjustments which can easily be done as the program is on the development stage and has not developed yet. Agile development is a methodology that aims at creating an interactive process that understands that customer satisfaction is important thus is flexible and welcoming to the customer requirements.

Table of Contents

Introductionii

Discussionii

Development Methodologyii

Water Fall Development Methodologyiii

Real World Approaches by Practitionersiv

Conclusionvi

Referencesvii

Agile Development Method

Introduction

Development is agile is the concept that we have been hearing for some years. People have not focused on what is the actual meaning of the word “agile” when it is used with development. Agile Development is a kind of software development that works at providing continuous delivery of functional software to its customers to provide them with maximum satisfaction. The main aim is to provide customer best options and improving the software according to the customer needs. Developers are selected and put into different teams with tight budgets and short time scales. They are supposed to continuously remain in contact with their business clients, delivering them working software as frequently as two weeks during the project and are open to welcome changes that the client feels should be made as to respond to the evolving business needs and customer requirements. Traditional software development that was used previously did not have such features so the customers were not satisfied as the changes were not supported and teams were not there to handle customer needs (Ronkainen, 2003, pp.244-254).

Discussion

Agile development allows the customer to ask the team to make changes that could help the customer according to his business needs and the team is ready to do that. The development aims at keeping things simple at the ...