The Agile methodology is a flexible software development process that values adaptability, collaboration, and delivering working software frequently in short iterations. It emerged in response to problems with traditional sequential "waterfall" models. Key aspects of Agile include self-organizing cross-functional teams, iterative development, frequent progress reviews with customers, and focus on adaptability and flexibility over rigid planning. The Agile Manifesto outlines Agile's core values of prioritizing individual interactions, working software, customer collaboration, and response to change.
The Agile methodology is a flexible software development process that values adaptability, collaboration, and delivering working software frequently in short iterations. It emerged in response to problems with traditional sequential "waterfall" models. Key aspects of Agile include self-organizing cross-functional teams, iterative development, frequent progress reviews with customers, and focus on adaptability and flexibility over rigid planning. The Agile Manifesto outlines Agile's core values of prioritizing individual interactions, working software, customer collaboration, and response to change.
The Agile methodology is a flexible software development process that values adaptability, collaboration, and delivering working software frequently in short iterations. It emerged in response to problems with traditional sequential "waterfall" models. Key aspects of Agile include self-organizing cross-functional teams, iterative development, frequent progress reviews with customers, and focus on adaptability and flexibility over rigid planning. The Agile Manifesto outlines Agile's core values of prioritizing individual interactions, working software, customer collaboration, and response to change.
The Agile methodology is a flexible software development process that values adaptability, collaboration, and delivering working software frequently in short iterations. It emerged in response to problems with traditional sequential "waterfall" models. Key aspects of Agile include self-organizing cross-functional teams, iterative development, frequent progress reviews with customers, and focus on adaptability and flexibility over rigid planning. The Agile Manifesto outlines Agile's core values of prioritizing individual interactions, working software, customer collaboration, and response to change.
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AGILE METHODOLOGY
The Agile software development methodology is one of the simplest and effective
processes to turn a vision for a business need into software solutions. Agile is a term used to describe software development approaches that employ continual planning, learning, improvement, team collaboration, evolutionary development, and early delivery. It encourages flexible responses to change.
Agile methodology definition:
Agile methodology is a type of project management process, mainly used for software development, where demands and solutions evolve through the collaborative effort of self-organizing and cross-functional teams and their customers.
The Agile methodology is a collection of principles that value adaptability and
flexibility. Agile aims to provide better responsiveness to changing business needs and therefore focuses on enabling teams to deliver in workable increments. Stemming from the values and principles of the Agile Manifesto, it was created as a response to the inadequacies of traditional development methods such as the Waterfall method. The software industry is a highly competitive market due to the fact that software is something that can be continuously updated. This means that developers need to constantly improve and innovate their products to keep on top of the game—and the linear, sequential approach of the Waterfall method just wasn’t cutting it.
A brief history of Agile software development
In the 1990s, software development faced a bit of a crisis. Referred to as ‘the application development crisis’ or ‘application delivery lag’, the industry realized that it couldn’t move fast enough to meet customer demands and requirements—the estimated time between a business need and actual application was about three years. See, traditional development models were based on a timeline approach, where development happened sequentially and the final product wasn’t revealed to customers until the very final step. This left little room for flexibility when it came to progress reviews and changes. So, by the time an actual application was finished, it was highly likely that requirements and systems of the project’s original objectives had changed.
With time, money, and efforts wasted, and even some projects cancelled halfway through, professional leaders of the software community thought it was time for a new, refreshed approach. Then in 2001, in a snowy, ski lodge in Utah, a group of industry practitioners gathered to discuss industry practices. Though the meeting was set up with a primary focus on the discussion of development cycles, some participants were already entertaining the idea of a new software development method. They all yearned to cement a process that legitimized what was being practised, and so, came the creation of the Agile Manifesto. What is the Agile Manifesto? The Agile Manifesto is a declaration of the values and principles expressed in Agile methodology. Made up of four foundational values and 12 key principles, it aims to help uncover better ways of developing software by providing a clear and measurable structure that promotes iterative development and team collaboration.
The agile software development emphasizes on four core values.
1. Individual and team interactions over processes and tools 2. Working software over comprehensive documentation 3. Customer collaboration over contract negotiation 4. Responding to change over following a plan Agile management also offers a simple framework promoting communication and reflection on past work amongst team members. Teams who were using traditional waterfall planning and adopted the agile way of development typically go through a transformation phase and often take help from agile coaches who help guide the teams through a smooth transformation. There are typically two styles of agile coaching: push-based and pull-based agile coaching. Agile management approaches have also been employed and adapted to the business and government sectors.
Agile software development paradigms can be used in other areas of life such as raising children. Its success in child development might be founded on some basic management principles; communication, adaptation, and awareness.
