Agile Methodology
Agile Management with Scrum
Agile refers to a group of software development lifecycle methodologies based on the iterative development, where requirements engineering and solutions are sanctioned through collaboration between self-organizing cross-functional teams. Agile methodology promotes project management processes that encourages discipline of frequent inspection and adaptation, individual organizational communication and accountability. Adhering to a set of engineering best practices intended to allow for rapid delivery of high-quality software, a business approach steps into aligned development with customer needs and company goals.
Agile methods encourages tactical touchpoints with minimal planning that helps minimize overall risk, and lets the project adapt to changes quickly in the SDLC An iteration may not add enough functionality to warrant a market release, but the goal is to have an available release (with minimal bugs) at the end of each iteration. Multiple iterations may be required to release a product or new features.
Scrum is an iterative incremental framework for managing complex work used with agile software development. By far the most popular agile method is Scrum. It was strongly influenced by a 1986 Harvard Business Review article. It structures development in cycles of that are no more than one month each, and take place one after the other without pause. These cycles, or Sprints, are timeboxed – they end on a specific date whether the work has been completed or not, and
are never extended. Service Level Agreements (SLA) may be establised to begin a new Sprint for futures stakes.
A major theme in Scrum is “inspect and adapt” which involves short steps of development, inspecting both the resulting product and the efficacy of current practices, and then adapting
the product goals and process practices.