CSC/ECE 517 Fall 2012/ch2a 2w5 dp

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Agile Software Development

History

Why Agile?

James Shore and Shane Warden ##The Art of Agile Development | Label### state that the benefit for developers to follow a Agile software development process is to deliver successful products to the client or customer. He defines success into 3 types:

  1. Organizational
    • Deliver value and decrease costs to increase return on investment.
  2. Technical
    • Elegant and maintainable code is produced.
  3. Personal
    • Developers find the project fun and rewarding which lead them to be intrinsically motivated and devote passion to the work.

Manifesto

From Agile Manifesto

  • Individuals and interactions over processes and tools
  • Working software over comprehensive documentation
  • Customer collaboration over contract negotiation
  • Responding to change over following a plan

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