Agile Software Development

10 Nov 2016

Agile Notes

How a Project success can be measured?

Mostly if:

• Done on Schedule.
• Done on budget.
• Done meeting specifications.

Other ways to measure success:

• Developer satisfaction.
• Number of post release bugs.
• Product reviews/ratings.
• Customer Satisfaction.
• Revenue Generated.

References

• http://scottambler.com/backup_muse/no-common-definition-of-success.html

• http://www.ambysoft.com/surveys/success2013.html

• Agile is directly proportional to success. The reason is, because of its principles which you will learn later. Agile thrives to build better software, happier developers and satisfied clients.

Agile Manifesto

Agile methodologies and principles are based on Agile Manifesto. The Agile Manifesto has four core values and twelve principles.

• http://agilemanifesto.org/iso/en/manifesto.html

How agile principles/practices can be implemented in a project?

• A process can be used to apply agile principles in a project. A process divided the work in a project into different phases. The phases are divided into activites and activites are further divided into tasks, where the actual work is done.

• https://www.codeproject.com/articles/17121/importance-of-processes-and-standards-in-software
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Software_development_process
• http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/1665059/?reload=true&arnumber=1665059

Different Software Processes

• Linear process models
  • https://pragtob.wordpress.com/2012/03/02/why-waterfall-was-a-big-misunderstanding-from-the-beginning-reading-the-original-paper/
• Iterative Process models
  • http://csse.usc.edu/TECHRPTS/1988/usccse88-500/usccse88-500.pdf
• Parallel Process models
  • http://www.informit.com/articles/article.aspx?p=24671

Which process models does agile principles fit betterly?

• The agile principles complement the iterative process model betterly when compared with others.

Agile practices and Methodologies

• Agile methodology is a group of agile practices. Popular agile methodologies are scrum and XP. XP emphasis on engineering practices and scrum emphasis on software management.

Scrum:

• Scrum in 10 minutes
• Scrum Guides

XP:

• XP Overview
• XP Principles

LEAN:

• LEAN philiosophy extendes the agile philosophy. Its main goal to eliminate and improve quality of product.
• LEAN principles

KANBAN:

• KANBAN is a methodology following the LEAN principles.
• KANBAN

Popular Websites about Agile software Development

• MountainGateSoftware
• XP
• Scrum
• Agile Manifesto
• Agile Alliance
• Lean
• Kanban

TEDx talks

• The single biggest reason why startups succeed