Agile Methodology

Agile Methodology

An agile methodology is an approach to designing and building the software in incremental and iterative techniques. The Agile method is a way much better approach to the waterfall model which overheads all the limitations of the waterfall model and allows the user with more features. This will allow every phase to have the testing process so that the errors are resolved at the beginning only.

In this approach, the agile process is broken into smaller pieces and will be combined after the complete designing and testing process.

Agile Methodology follows the following process:

Scrum: Scrum methodology mainly focuses on “How to manage the team-based development”. Agile and Scrum contain major three roles with the responsibilities explained as follows:

Scrum Master which will allow for the team meeting

The product owner will be responsible for preparing for the backlogs

Task organises task

Moreover, the scrum follows the following process to execute:

Sprint aka iteration

End products are where all the product backlogs are listed in detail.

In the sprint process, in the product backlog, a top user story is selected and converted into the sprint backlog.

The team works with the defined sprint backlog

The team reports on the daily work

The team delivers the functionality of the product in the end.

Crystal Methodology: There are 3 main highlights of this:

Chartering: In this phase, there are different activities are involved i.e.,

Creation of the development team

Feasibility Analysis

Preparing Initial Plan

Conversion of the development methodology

Cyclic delivery: This is the main development phase which has 2 or 3 more delivery phases:

Update and release the plan by the team

A subset of the requirements is implemented through a series of program tests and iterations

Customers receive a real-time integrated product

Developing a project plan and reviewing the development methodology

Wrap Up: The activities performed in this phase will be deployed into the user environment, and post-deployment reviews and reflections are performed.

Dynamic Software Development Method (DSDM)

This is an approach that provides the software development and agile delivery framework. It will actively focus on the frequent delivery with DSDM.

The techniques used in DSDM are

Time Boxing

MoSCoW Rules

Prototyping

The DSDM project consists of 7 phases

Pre-project

Feasibility Study

Business Study

Functional Model Iteration

Design and Build Iteration

Implementation

Post-project

Benefits of Agile Methodology

This will have various benefits which are listed and will provide the gist of it concerning the following:

Customer

It will provide high responsiveness with multiple numbers of features available in the process.

Increase in the delivery process with the Short cycle.

Development Team

Makes the working methodology easier

Decreases the non-productive easily.

Scrum Master

It makes the planning and task tracking straightforward for the daily meeting

Complete report generation with the project status.

Tracking and debugging the issues quickly.

Vendor

Increase the efficiency of the team

Reduces wastage and overheads

Product Owner

Alignment of the work with the customer’s specifications

Chances to re-prioritize the work, frequently.

Here the delivery value will be at the max

PMOS and c-Level Executive

Reports on the work on a daily basis.

Planning and scheduling of the work