A Review of 'Using Scrum in Distributed Agile Development: A Multiple Case Study'

In the world of Computer Science, Information Technology, and Software development, people always work together to get tasks done. Whether you get someone from the Business side, the programming side, the Cyber Security side, or even HR, these people all work together sometimes to work on a task and finish the task. Agile is one of the most prominent method of using and as well as building a design for a client’s needs. But to make it a little more complicated, there a few different subsets within Agile – Scrum and Waterfall.

This paper will take a in depth look at what makes AGILE “AGILE”, including the history, uses, and arguments for and against its use.

Agile techniques should be used to solve the current issues faced by the company as agile techniques normally being used by the software industry help the business to act in response under the unpredictable situations faced. In Agile methodologies opportunities are been provided to evaluate whether the project is under the direction all through its development cycle. All this is being accomplished with the help of regular tempo kept in work, and the teams must show a product which is having the desired potential.

This paper describes Agile development methodologies and their benefits. Section II presents key elements of Agile. Section III presents benefits of Agile development methodologies over traditional waterfall methodologies.

This section establishes a theoretical foundation in relation to existing knowledge and theories regarding Agile development framework, Scrum, Integrated Product Development and Stage-Gate process model.

This essay involves the comparison and contrast of the different methodologies used by programming teams. Among these methodologies are; System development life cycle (SDLC), Extreme programming and Agile methodology. Software development methodologies are the frameworks involved to structure, plan and control the processes used in developing an information system. The system development life cycle (SDLC) is a conceptual model which is involved in most project management and used for large scale projects with relatively large number of developers. A good example of SDCL methodologies includes; waterfall model. The SDCL takes a lot of time to produce complete products but of high quality. Agile methodology is a conceptual framework used also in project management and it is designed for small projects with few developers. Extreme programming on the other hand allow for communication with customers and by doing so it ensures interaction between developers and consumers in order to change as fast as the customers' needs and desires changes. Even though there different methodologies, agile methodologies seem to have a lot of advantages over the Extreme programming and system development life cycle. Since it combines a number of other methodologies to come up with a better way for developer to produce faster and change to as customers desires changes.

The way that software is developed has been rapidly evolving over time, going through many iterations, one genre of which is Agile software development. The Agile Manifesto1 was published in 2001, however the ideas behind it have existed and used since the early 1970’s when E. A. Edmonds published a paper that introduced the idea of an adaptive software development process2. Then in the 1990’s there was a rapid evolution of software development processes. This lead to the creation of scrum in 1995, extreme programming in 1996 and feature-driven development in 1997. Though they were devised before the Agile Manifesto was created, they now all fall under Agile software development. Agile software development methods are generally considered much better than previous methods, such as the Waterfall method, though it is still considered to be in its early stages with many issues3.

[1]The Agile software development (ASD) methodologies have been established in various streams like academic, educational and also in professional software development. Understanding of how ASD methodologies are used, the kind of acceptance, successes and failures they have in the mentioned streams would be the main exploration. The findings from the web-based survey of Microsoft employees who involved in development, testing and management have indicated that around one-third of the people use ASD and the SCRUM is the most popular ASD methodology. [2]Agile methods can be mainly used in environments which are unpredictable and helps in succeeding over such environments which are in the reality today.

In conclusion, agile software development is a very exciting and useful approach, although some project suit agile more than others. The collaboration and visibility can provide a much better and rewarding experience for the team to develop software products. Over the last years, many companies dramatically improved their performances

This report is to discuss about the SCRUM (also known as Iterative Development Model), one of the famous software development methodology besides the Waterfall method.

The scope of this paper is to provide an Outline on Scrum Methodology, its communication and collaboration.

Abstract—Our objective is to investigate on the agile models and their practices in the software technologies. Agile software methodologies are being widely accepted these days. In this paper we look at methodologies that promote agility. The study contains the quantitative analysis of the agile methodologies in practice and the benefits at present industry. In this paper we deal with What are the software practices that can be considered agile into the context of approaches to develop software?

The purpose of literature review in this dissertation is to provide knowledge to sponsor on what benefits and possibilities that comes with Agile Project Management. The first source to information is gathered through studying relevant literature

As the world keeps evolving day by day, technology has become an essential thing in our daily lives. Many tech-companies have been established due to huge expectation from people who are always enthusiastic about new inventions. However, not so many companies could survive in very competitive markets like PC computing, software, hardware, etc. In the early 1990s, as PC computing began to proliferate in the industry, software development faced a crisis. Expected estimated the time for a startup business to have a shippable application in production was about three years. This was even worse when it came to others area in the industry. For example, in aerospace and defense, the average time for a typical complex project could easily be more than 20 years. As a result, many projects ended up being cancelled in the middle of the development phase. Some were complete but did not meet all the business’s current needs. Conclusively, project management is the primary cause for those failures. Fortunately, the agile process management has been established from a small group of software leaders to solve the management issue. Agile is a set of development methods which promotes adaptive planning, early delivery. Not only that, it also encourages rapid and flexible responses to requirements changes at any phase of the development process. It is true to say that agile process has given companies, businesses a more sophisticated

The second section of this article presents useful definitions within the field of distributed development including the terms, "development" which they define as, "any software