CSC/ECE 517 Fall 2012/ch2a 2w5 dp

Agile Software Development

Why Agile?

James Shore and Shane Warden <ref>Shore, James and Warden, Shane. The Art of Agile Development. O’Reilly Media, Inc., 2008, p. 4.</ref> 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.

The Agile Manifesto

The Agile Manifesto is a set of 12 principles that provide a foundation for agile methodologies.

The core principles of the manifesto are as follows <ref>Manifesto for Agile Software Development http://agilemanifesto.org/ </ref> :

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

Values

There are four concepts that represent the main values of Agile software development.

1. Adaptability
2. Transparency
3. Simplicity
4. Unity

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