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Adaptive Software Development.

The document discusses: 1. ASD focuses on collaboration, self-organization, and being adaptable to changing requirements. 2. The ASD lifecycle has three phases: Speculation, Collaboration, and Learning. 3. ASD emphasizes rapid delivery, user involvement, and evolving products through iterative learning and feedback.

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ADAPTIVE SOFTWARE

DEVELOPMENT

Group 1
GROUP MEMBERS

• Sadia Nadeem 2020-CS-03


• Sheikh Hanan Ali 2020-CS-07
• Khadija Azeem 2020-CS-09
• Ali Raza 2020-CS-37
• Fatima Abid 2020-CS-61
• Hamna Rehman 2020-CS-77
• Numan Subhani 2020-CS-80
WHAT IS ADAPTIVE SOFTWARE
DEVELOPMENT (ASD)?

• Adaptive Software Development is one of the agile methodologies. 


• Jim Highsmith published Adaptive Software Development in 2000.
• Adaptive Software Development is a method to build complex
software and system.
• ASD focuses on human collaboration and self-organization.
• As with other Aglie methods, ASD is used to make teams more
adaptable to changing customer demand, requirements and
market needs.
FLOW MODEL OF ASD

• The framework has three development lifecycle phases:


• Speculation
• Collaboration
• Learning
SPECULATION

• During this phase project is initiated and planning is conducted.


• We get information about the project from the product owner
(customer) like project requirements, user needs, customer mission
statement, etc, to define set of release cycles that the project wants. 
COLLABORATION

• In this phase that the actual development


begins.
• In project management, a collaborative
environment invites the team to work as
one to produce the desired result.
• Collaboration or the collaborative
environment is the only genuine way through
which we can achieve the desired result.
LEARNING

• The Learn part of the Lifecycle is vital for the


success of the project.
• Input from customer.
• Both, the developers and customers examine
their assumptions and use the results of each
development cycle to learn the direction of the
next.
• The team learns :
• About product changes
• More fundamental changes in underlying
assumptions about how the products are being
developed
WHERE CAN YOU USE ASD?

• ASD is beneficial in businesses where the priority is on rapid delivery of


products, services, and values. 
• This process requires consistent improvement of the product features with
changing times..
• It follows a user-centric approach that helps design more intuitive software that
caters to user needs.
• It requires a lot of user involvement, which is tough to achieve. ASD is better
suited for single projects.
CHARACTERISTICS OF ADAPTIVE
SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT

• There are six major characteristics of the ASD lifecycle. 


• Mission focused
• Feature based
• Iterative
• Timeboxed
• Risk driven
• Change tolerant
• Mission focused:
This is important that the project that you overtake guides the
mission of the client business. Mission statements are to be guided
to encourage exploration and provide boundaries for development
instead of a clear direction. With a clear mission statement, it
becomes essential for the team to reflect on a solution that earns
great results.
• Feature based:
ASD is a feature-based solution system, it doesn’t revolve
around tasks. Features are the functionalities that are
developed during the iteration for customer’s priorities. They
can evolve after a few iterations and they need to be worked
on properly. Documents like user manuals, instruction
manuals, etc. are all part of the features.
• Iterative:
Adaptive Software Development is based on iterative processes. The
new features are added in each iteration. It emphasizes
successive deliveries to get feedbacks and add
new features .
• Timeboxed:
Time boxed in the ASD process refers not to use time deadlines
incorrectly rather it is about setting fixed delivery times for iterations
and projects.
• Risk Driven:
In Adaptive Software Development, in each iteration new challenges
come and the process aims to solve high-risk items/activities quickly.
So in this, the adaptive iterations are identified and analyzed with
critical risks and also evaluated as well.
• Change tolerant:
As we discussed Adaptive Software Development is based on
constant change, re-evaluation, and evolving products with
lightweight planning and continuous learning. So this process takes
continuous changes as an advantage and welcomes it. It does not
make changes as problems rather it takes the changes as new
challenges.
WHAT ARE THE STRENGTH AND
WEAKNESS OF ASD?

• ASD strength include:


• Focused on the end users, which can lead to better and more
intuitive products
• Allows for on-time and even early delivery
• Encourages more transparency between developers and clients
• ASD’s weaknesses include:
• Demands extensive user involvement, which can be
difficult to facilitate
• Integrates testing into every stage, which can add to
a project’s costs
• Emphasis on rapid iterating and continuous
feedback can lead to scope creep.
COMPARISON OF ASD WITH XP AND
SCRUM

Adaptive software Extreme Programming Scrum


Development
•> A culture of •> Customer Driven •> Independent,Self
adaption,Mission driven, Development, Daily orginizg, Self managing
Encourage Builds,Max 2 weeks for team, 30 days cycle.
Collaboration,Time one increment.
Boxing.
•> Organization surve the •> Refactoring- The •> Replacing old way of
purpose of adaptive system gets constantly defined and repeatable
system which encourage redesigned to software development
planning or determinaton. accommodate change with the new product
and to improve development view of
responsiveness. Scrum.
CONT…..

ASD XP Scrum
ASD has more to do Less importance or Though there is a
with concepts and attention to overall view detailed specification
culture over actual and management. for the seamless
software development. execution of 30-day
cycle, integration and
acceptance tests are
not detailed.
ADAPTIVE SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT
PROS AND CONS 

Pros (Advantages)
Some advantages of Adaptive Software Development :
• Useful for rapid and complex software product development.
• Easy software incremental adjustment
• Focus on end-users, meeting requirements, and fulfilling
demands
• Allows on-time delivery with maximum customer satisfaction
CONT…..

• Provides high transparency between developers and clients.


• Reduced vulnerabilities and bugs as undergoes multiple testing.
CONS

Cons(Disadvantages)
Some disadvantages of Adaptive Software Development :
• Working in an uncertain environment is challenging
• Proceeding only with mission needs broad exploration and constant
focus
• Requires high user/client involvement
• Requires testing into each iteration which increases the cost
CONT…..

• Frequent changes undergo with less documentation


• Requires strict time commitment between different teams involved in
project
CONCLUSION

• To sum it all up, the ASD Model is an ideal methodology for the
development of complex software and systems .
• One of the benefits of an ASD Model is its change-oriented lifecycle
which allows teams to explore and deviate from plans without fear of
failing, since things can be easily changed anytime throughout the
developmentprocess.
• This also provides high transparency between developers and clients
due to the constant communication process that is encouraged by the
ASD Model
• one of its drawbacks is less documentation that create problem for new
team member.
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