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AGILE

Agile software development emerged in the late 1990s to address the need for rapid development and delivery in a fast-changing business environment. It emphasizes iterative processes, stakeholder involvement, and minimal documentation, focusing on delivering working software quickly. The Agile manifesto prioritizes individuals and interactions, working software, customer collaboration, and responding to change over traditional processes and documentation.

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AGILE

Agile software development emerged in the late 1990s to address the need for rapid development and delivery in a fast-changing business environment. It emphasizes iterative processes, stakeholder involvement, and minimal documentation, focusing on delivering working software quickly. The Agile manifesto prioritizes individuals and interactions, working software, customer collaboration, and responding to change over traditional processes and documentation.

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Agile Software

Development
By
Attia Agha
Topics

 ✧ Agile methods
 ✧ Agile development techniques
Rapid SE

 Rapid development and delivery is now often the most important


requirement for software systems
 Businesses operate in a fast –changing requirement and it ispractically
impossible to produce a set of stable software requirements
 Software has to evolve quickly to reflect changing business needs.
 Plan-driven development is essential for some types of system but does not
meet these business needs.
 Agile development methods emerged in the late 1990s whose aim was to
radically reduce the delivery time for working software systems
Agile development

 Program specification, design and implementation are inter-leaved


 The system is developed as a series of versions or increments with
stakeholders involved in version specification and evaluation
 Frequent delivery of new versions for evaluation
 Extensive tool support (e.g. automated testing tools) used to support
development.
 Minimal documentation – focus on working code
Plan-driven and agile development
 Plan-driven development
 A plan-driven approach to software engineering is based around separate
development stages with the outputs to be produced at each of these stages
planned in advance.
 Not necessarily waterfall model – plan-driven, incremental development is
possible
 Iteration occurs within activities.
 Agile development
 Specification, design, implementation and testing are inter-leaved and the
outputs from the development process are decided through a process of
negotiation during the software development process.
AGILE METHODS

 Dissatisfaction with the overheads involved in software design methods of


the 1980s and 1990s led to the creation of agile methods. These methods:
 Focus on the code rather than the design
 Are based on an iterative approach to software development
 Are intended to deliver working software quickly and evolve this quickly to meet
changing requirements.
 The aim of agile methods is to reduce overheads in the software process
(e.g. by limiting documentation) and to be able to respond quickly to
changing requirements without excessive rework.
Agile manifesto

 We are uncovering better ways of developing software by doing it and


helping others do it. Through this work we have come to value:
 Individuals and interactions over processes and tools Working software over
comprehensive documentation Customer collaboration over contract
negotiation
 Responding to change over following a plan
 That is, while there is value in the items on the right, we value the items on
the left more.
Principle of agile methods
Agile method applicability

 Product development where a software company is developing a small or


medium-sized product for sale.
 Virtually all software products and apps are now developed using an agile
approach
 Custom system development within an organization, where there is a clear
commitment from the customer to become involved in the development
process and where there are few external rules and regulations that affect
the software.

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