Agile software development process is what most IT companies avail to develop their IT solutions. It values interactions, working software, customer collaboration and responding to change. It benefits IT companies to access and change the direction of a software development life cycle at any iteration (work of developing a project is divided into iterations). The same isn’t possible when software is developed using a traditional development process – Says Sudhakar Goverdhanam.
What is Agile and what are the key principles of Agile?
1. What is Agile and what are the key principles of Agile?
Agile software development process is what most IT companies avail to develop their IT solutions. It
values interactions, working software, customer collaboration and responding to change. It benefits IT
companies to access and change the direction of a software development life cycle at any iteration
(work of developing a project is divided into iterations). The same isn’t possible when software is
developed using a traditional development process – Says Sudhakar Goverdhanam.
A traditional software development process disallows to revisit any aspect of a life cycle; the same is
not the case with Agile. Every aspect, whether it is requirements gathering or design, is revisited and
redirected to develop quality software. Using Agile, IT companies can reduce the cost and deliver the
project on time. It becomes possible only with Agile to develop software while requirements are still
gathering.
Agile has a few principles and they are mentioned here:
1. An experienced end user representative involvement is essential to develop software the meet
the end user’s expectations & necessities.
2. Agile teams should make decisions at every stage of a software development lifecycle.
3. High priority features are developed and delivered in the early iterations
4. Testing the software throughout the life cycle