Agile Software Development in a Nutshell
Agile methodology uses war room type collaboration and short iterations to produce incremental versions of software to meet the changing requirements of stakeholders.
- Working software is key measurement
- Requirements are done in iterations
- A War Room type collaboration
- Minimal documentation - Just enough documentation is created and maintained
Basic principles
- Customer satisfaction by rapid, continuous delivery of useful software
- Welcome changing requirements
- Working software is delivered frequently
- Working software is the principal measure of progress
- Close, daily collaboration between business and IT
- Face-to-face conversation is the best form of communication
- Projects are built around motivated individuals, who should be trusted
- Continuous attention to technical excellence and good design
- Self-organizing teams
- Regular adaptation to changing circumstances
To Make it Work
- Adopt short iterations no more than four weeks in length
- Focus on the delivery of working software, as a general rule, an iteration should be seen as a failure if all it produces is documentation
- Promote quality oriented techniques such as test first development, coding conventions and refactoring
- Remove as many barriers to communication and collaboration as you possibly can by making it as easy as possible for people to work together.
- Make sure that everyone involved, including business stakeholders, data professionals and quality assurance professionals work in an evolutionary if not Agile manner
- Streamline RUP as much as possible, less is definitely more
From: Overcoming the Myths of IBM Rational Unified Process (RUP) and Agile Development
Myths
- No documentation
- Undisciplined
- Not scalable to large, complex projects
- No traceability
- Issues and risk management is not done
Resources
Overcoming the Myths of IBM Rational Unified Process (RUP) and Agile Development -IBM
Manifesto for Agile Software Development – Agile Manifesto
The Experts’ Take on Business Analysis and Agile – Modern Analyst
RUP and Agile Development Overcoming Myths – IBM
Agile software development – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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