Agile Methodologies

When it comes to software development and software project management in general, agile changes everything. These changing paradigms provide both the power and the consternation of agile, because addressing change on such a wholesale basis in an enterprise is not a trivial thing. And yet, team by team, organizations are making these changes over time,...   Read Article.

Alistair Cockburn describes some of the structural, managerial, and interpersonal techniques that can be employed to increase the chances of a project's success....   Read Article.

Using XP enables it-Workplace Solutions GmbH University of Hamburg (Germany) to deliver software on time and on budget, while supporting close communication between the (potential) customer and the development team as requirements changed daily. One to two releases per customer per week (two per day at the peak) indicate the flexibility and risk-minimizing...   Read Article.

This slide presentation outlines the background of extreme programming, testing simple units and testing complex units....   Read Article.

One problem with the XP development process is its fragility. If developers use the XP techniques in an unintended way or not at all, the XP process is likely to break down: The misused techniques affect the other XP techniques in a negative way, breaking the whole process. The authors believe that it is possible to stabilize the XP process using specialized...   Read Article.

In this paper, the authors study XP from an economics point of view. They analyze the cost and benefit of XP for a sample software project under different settings, systematically varying key project parameters which are influenced when using XP techniques....   Read Article.

This popular Extreme Programming methodology is reviewed from the perspective of the Capability Maturity Model® (CMM® ) for Software, a five-level model that prescribes process improvement priorities for software organizations. Overviews of both XP and CMM are provided, and XP is critiqued from a Software MM perspective. The conclusion is that lightweight...   Read Article.

is paper was written to relate Extreme Programming and the traditional Software Engineering practices. The author states why he "considers Extreme Programming to be harmful to reliable software development and why it provides not many answers to the significant questions that contemporary software development methods have to answer."...   Read Article.

This slide presentation outlines the following topics about Extreme Programming: planning, the manager and customer bill of rights, balancing the power, the planning game, use cases and user stories, and iteration planning....   Read Article.

One of the key requirements of eXtreme Programming (XP) is strong and effective communication between the team members but to enable this strong level of communication among team members, XP emphasizes the need to have the team members physically located close to each other. Since this may not always be feasible, this paper addresses this issue by proposing...   Read Article.

This paper covers customer involvement challenges in lightweight software development processes. The report summarizes the presentations and discussions of the Workshop on Customer Involvement held during XP2001, the Second International Conference on Extreme Programming and Flexible Processes in Software Engineering, Cagliari, Italy, May 21, 2001....   Read Article.

This paper develops the use of 'guided interviews' and questionnaires in an empirical study of a small software development company. In particular, the study identified a number of human issues in communications, technology, teamwork and political factors that significantly influenced the implementation and evolution of eXtreme programming into a...   Read Article.

A Comparison of the Value Systems of Adaptive Software Development and Extreme Programming This paper compares two new development methodologies (Adaptive Software Development (ASD) and Extreme Programming (XP)) by presenting a simple model of value systems and comparing the value systems with these two methodologies. The purpose of this paper was to...   Read Article.

The patterns of the SCRUM development method are presented as an extension pattern language to the existing organizational pattern languages. In the last few years, the SCRUM development method has rapidly gained recognition as an effective tool to hyper-productive software development. However, when SCRUM patterns are combined with other existing organizational...   Read Article.

Inventing and Reinventing SCRUM in Five Companies This slide presentation outlines SCRUM in an overview and introduces a SCRUM flow diagram. Other topics include: the project domain, daily meetings, project tracking, manifesto for agile software development, the first SCRUM, reforming project management, key to long term survival: platform systems design,...   Read Article.

This paper discusses SCRUM. Topics include: the origins of SCRUM, scientists give their opinion, scrum empirical development process, scrum - characterizes and rules, applicable to small simple and large complex software systems, scrum productivity, the inner workings of scrum and planning and system architecture....   Read Article.

This PowerPoint presentation introduces SCRUM and answers how it became, what it is and how it works. Other topics include: the philosophy of SCRUM, what's a SCRUM meeting, benefits, how to learn using SCRUM, and project management patterns....   Read Article.

This is a sample chapter from the book A Practical Guide to Feature-Driven Development. The chapter focuses on the best practices that make up FDD which are the following: domain object modeling, developing by feature, individual class (code) ownership, feature teams, inspections, regular builds, configuration management, and reporting/visibility of...   Read Article.

This article first introduces the FDD in a detailed summary. The articlethen presents a short comparison with XP....   Read Article.

This slide presentation's purpose is to learn feature-driven development. What, why and how FFD is used are answered....   Read Article.