Agile Dev

Agile Dev

1. Uses Joint Application Dev

2. Manifesto

   • Individuals/interaction > processes/tools
   • Working software > documenting
   • Collaboration > contracts
   • Responsive to change
   • FTF meetings

3. Features

   • Rapid Application Development
     • Tools, techniques, methodologies to speed up dev
   • iterative
     • tested and approved
     • fixed time
   • Active Customer Collaboration
   • feature-driven
   • priority-based delivery
   • adaptive
   • self-organising teams
   • empowered teams
   • people-centric

4. Clients' benefit

   • more actively involved
   • informed
   • requirements are accepted iteratively
   • fixed timescale
   • more testing = more solid

5. benefit to project team

   • involved more actively at all stages
   • Resources don't have to be divided between documenting and developing
   • frequent feedback after testing

6. Challenges

   • difficult
   • more disciplined
   • extensive planning

7. Don't use when

   • unavailable client
   • functions not splittable
   • requirements are fixed
   • team not skilled adequately
   • unsupporting infrustructure

8. methodologies

   • extreme programming
   • scrum
   • adaptive software development
   • dynamic sys dev methods
     • 80/20 principle
   • feature-driven dev
   • lean software dev