CSC/ECE 517 Fall 2012/ch2a 2w5 dp
Agile Software Development
History
Why Agile?
James Shore states 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:
- Organizational
- deliver value and decrease costs to increase return on investment.
- focus development efforts on the core value that the project provides for the business.
- release most valuable features first and release new versions frequently.
- Technical - producing elegant and maintainable code.
- Personal - a fun and intrinsically rewarding project in which developers devote their passion.
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