On February 7th, 2013, Dr. Scott Tilley from Florida Institute of Technology gave a presentation named Agile Software Development. He started the presentation quoting “In life you can never be too rich or too thin“ from Duchess of Windsor, then showing a Dilbert cartoon with the meaning of agile programming. After this, he made an outline of his speech: Agility, The Agile Movement, Extreme Programming, Scrum and Kanban. The last three are examples of agility. In the first section, he showed us the explaining of Agility in the dictionary -- means moving easily—whose synonyms are featly, feline, light, spry etc. and whose antonyms are dull, lazy, slow stupid etc. The meanings of agility he gave us are speed and flexibility. In the second section, he discussed the agile movement. First of all, he also showed us a cartoon to tell us a person might be agile and might be a developer, but that not makes this person to be an agile developer, cause an agile developer needs more than agility. Then he introduced the waterfall model, which is a basic model for software development. Starting w...
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The concept of agile management enables the program to meet its needs and provides a value for business effectively and efficiently, unlike the traditional project management which was highly based
Through all of his courage, he found what he was looking for. He dug deep and went to the extremes that were not normal to himself. All of his work leads to his dynamic characteristics.
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A heart that never hardens, despite loathing and rage conducted at it. A temper that never tries, regardless the temptation, often by the same people that conducted loathing and rage at it. A touch that never hurts, but provides solace and help, even to the people who have been hostile. He came to be known as a theatricality for his books that he would read publicly. “He entertained crowds by reading his works using colorful, uncanny voices to animate each character...
The characteristics of AM are that they the value “(a) individuals and interaction over processes and tools, (b) working software over comprehensive documentation, (c) customer collaboration over contract negotiation, and (d) responding to change over following a plan”[1]. AM concentrate on developing functionality over managing the development of functionality. The management of traditional software projects favors a well-planned approach – typically called the “waterfall approach” – documenting all project details before development starts. AM advocates creating a high level design of the whole system, then working on functionality in ascending order from highest to lowest in customer perceived business value. All AM assume requirements will change constantly so shorter development cycles are instituted to accommodate for the new or changed requirements. AM also assume close contact with the business (for the purposes of this paper, business, client, & user are used interchangeably) to answer any questions, and help resolve issues related to design, cost, and scheduling.
The Systems Development Life Cycle (SDLC) consists of phases used in developing a piece of software. It is the plan of how to develop and maintain software, and when necessary, replace that software. In 2007 during my hospital’s transition to a new software system, I was fortunate enough to be included in the process. I did not get involved until the implementation phase, but from then on, until now, I remain very active in the process. I decided to highlight the Waterfall Model of SDLC. The Waterfall Model is a “sequential development process” with each phase continuing in a line (McGonigle and Mastrian, 2012, p. 205).
Describe the agile method Scrum. Describe all the roles, eg. Product owner, scrum master, etc. (2 pages)
Software has become an integral component in the way organisations conduct business. The impact of and reliance on software within organisations is increasing (Pesola, Eskeli, Parvianeni, Kommeren & Gramza, 2008; Xu & Brinkkemper, 2007). Software development is becoming a global phenomenon as organisations have adopted networked development environments and have globally outsourced portions of their development activities (Valimaki & Kaariainen, 2008). According to Lacheiner and Ramler (2011) software development is a complex process as it requires interaction between diverse individuals, the creation of comprehensive software development documents and comprises interdependent activities. Kaariainen and Valimaki (2008) argue that as an outcome of increased competition, the ability to produce products as scheduled is important to any organisation. This has resulted in organisations investing in technologies and frameworks that manage and support their software development processes (Jwo, Hsu & Cheng, 2010). Application Lifecycle Management Technology (ALMT) is proposed as a solution for the management of software development activities.
A perceptive company with an ‘agile’ system can rapidly identify an alteration in the environment and gather useful information to quickly respond and avoid a major internal impact. This agility to quickly r...
LIST OF IMAGES Figure 1: Waterfall Model 7 Figure 2: Agile Model.8 Figure 3: Collaborative (Hybrid) Model.9 Figure 4: Model used by ACCA for Exam Entry project.14 1 Overview The Waterfall Model has been the ideal choice for software development. In this model, an idea becomes a usable software in a sequential process that cascades through the stages of Initiation, Analysis, Implementation, Testing and Maintenance. But it has some disadvantages. Agile software development evolved as a solution to the disadvantages of the Waterfall model. Instead of a sequential design process, the Agile methodology follows an incremental approach.
Agile leaders help individuals to grow continuously and not encourage to bring new ideas. The Ideas that trigger positive change. But in order to foster structured change and create innovative organization, IT processes, roles and responsibilities, and quality management needs to be well understood and well defined, which helps improve IT governance performance. At the same time, agile leadership must device a continuous agile delivery across structural and architectural quality factors of the software. That quality delivery framework must check everything from security, robustness and performance in addition to functional aspects of the product. Compound all that with applications running in cloud. So agile leaders must design a fast paced, multifaceted testing environment that can keep up with a face paced agile software releases. So automation comes very handy in an agile testing organization. The right level of scale in a continuous integration environment is crucial to ensure that software quality is not compromised. A true leadership comes from simplicity and agility while a good IT decision making and governing process is in place. Leadership welcomes change and work as an enabler to focus on what is next. Leaders keep their eyes on the value for the business. Focus on what makes sense for the business
In this case study, the work breakdown structure is classified as a waterfall methodology where it is more rigid whereas eXtreme programming (XP) would be considered under the agile approach. The work breakdown structure (WBS) is a hierarchical structure that outlines tasks needed to deliver the product or service.
Agile software development is a group of software development methods based on iterative and incremental development, where requirements and solutions evolve through collaboration between self-organizing, cross-functional teams. It promotes adaptive planning, evolutionary development and delivery, a time-boxed iterative approach, and encourages rapid and flexible response to change.