Agile Methodologies

Comparing the Leading Alternatives This slide presentation introduces agile processes. The presentation answers what agility is. Leading agile processes are also presented including: FDD, Scrum, Extreme Programming (XBreed), Crystal, and DSDM. The presentation ends with final comparisons...   Read Article.

This slide presentation outlines using agile development on urban planning....   Read Article.

This chapter is a sample chapter from Agile Development: Principles, Patterns, and Process. This chapter contains an in-depth exploration of the values and principles behind the Agile Manifesto....   Read Article.

This is a PowerPoint presentation about Agile Development outlining: what agile is, how it got there, methodology theory meets project details, and getting / misconstruing the message....   Read Article.

This pamphlet covers what agile models are and what isn't AM, an AM overview, values, principles, practices and recommended resources....   Read Article.

This paper discusses Agility. The topics include: agile players, the pros, what the risks and shortcomings of the agile methods are, what's the use, and agile usability processes....   Read Article.

This article discusses agile methodologies and recommendations. This article also discusses when agile methodologies work....   Read Article.

This essay details how AM can be used in conjunction with the various instantiations of the Unified Process (UP). The following topics are discussed: how modeling works in the Unified Process, how good is the fit between AM and UP, a case study, adopting AM on an UP project and how that works....   Read Article.

Agile is in. Many processes and projects are jumping on the bandwagon and claiming to be Agile, so what are the telltale signs that what you have is a traditional process just pretending to be Agile?...   Read Article.

Matt Simons presents the case for offshore agile development, describing problems and benefits of agile approaches in this somewhat complicated situation....   Read Article.

Agile is all around us - and it actually has been for some time, as Jim Highsmith points out in this article. So why is it suddenly so blisteringly hot?...   Read Article.

Most of the agile approaches to project management and software development espouse a principle of simplicity or minimalism: do less, do better, and do swarms, as discussed in this article by Jim Highsmith of the Cutter Consortium....   Read Article.

With all the fuss about Agile methods, it's easy to forget about us programmers! Andy Hunt and Dave Thomas look at what it takes to be a successful Agile developer....   Read Article.

In this excerpt from his book, Jim Highsmith looks at agility in software development and its success in other fields such as manufacturing; and explores the concept of Agile Software Development Ecosystems....   Read Article.

Alistair Cockburn defines scope and talks about using the four work products that bind the system's scope: vision statement, design scope drawing, in/out list, and actor-goal list.n...   Read Article.

Communication relies on context as well as message; without this shared understanding, customers and programmers will miscommunicate. In this article, William C. Wake lists 10 common statements and tells us what they really mean....   Read Article.

In this chapter from his book Surviving Object-Oriented Projects, Alistair Cockburn discusses selecting and setting up an OO project, including purpose, people, technology, and training....   Read Article.

In this chapter from his book, Extreme Programming Explored, William Wake gives a practical, you-are-there glimpse into what happens in a typical day during an XP iteration from the perspective of customer, programmer, and manager.n...   Read Article.

Kent Beck shows you how to maximize the economic value of a software project by paying attention to cash flows, interest rates, and project mortality, from his book Extreme Programming Explained....   Read Article.

In this chapter from Planning Extreme Programming Kent Beck and Martin Fowler explain how extreme programming is like driving a car: it's not about pointing the car in one direction and holding to it; it's about making lots of little course corrections.n...   Read Article.