CSC/ECE 517 Fall 2012/ch2a 2w5 dp
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:
- Organizational
- Deliver value and decrease costs to increase return on investment.
- Technical
- Elegant and maintainable code is produced.
- 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