Software Architecture And Methodology As A Tool For Efficient Software Engineering Process

Cost and resource needs are higher for traditional than Agile due to Waterfall’s sequential development phase of all requirements determined in the beginning, software design and finally implementation of master design. The need for all information up front takes substantial time to gather and the sequential design does not allow for project changes as the flow enters into the programming stage. With Agile, costs remain low because there exists an incremental and iterative approach to the project, meaning less time is used to collect all requirements up front, the

The preferred methodologies for managing a software’s lifecycle are a major factor in deciding how a firm reacts to market demands. The major SDLC frameworks followed are the waterfall model, Agile methodology (scrum) and Kanban. We will discuss this answer

Abstract: Agile software development is a conceptual framework for software engineering that promotes development in iterations throughout the life-cycle of the project .Software developed during one unit of time is referred to as an iteration, which may last from one to four week Scrum is part of the Agile movement. It is a lightweight process framework for agile development. The Scrum method is most often used to manage complex software and product development, using iterative and incremental practices. And results have been shown about significantly increase in productivity and reduces time to benefits relative to classic “waterfall” processes. But scrum method also have some problems and to overcome the problems a new approach is proposed

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.

The agile approach is hasty and coherent and built on iterative and incremental growth where requirements and results advance through collaboration (Rubin and Rubin, 2010). This approach can be seen as a process which breaks down a large complex project in to numerous less complex or rather simple projects as well as outlining the scope for every one of these less complex

Agile is the management of incremental software development across cross functional teams. Learned from years of successes and failures, the agile philosophy centers on software development with an importance with self-organization, motivation, in addition to daily team interaction. It means being able to present working software instead of slides and documentation. Agile encourages customer collaboration throughout the entire process to allow developers to respond to change in a timely manner. The agile development process can be implemented by different developmental processes and is comprised of several key principles. With personal experience of the outcome of correct agile implementation; agile can have the opposite effect without

Agile methodology is sound approach for software development. The main focus is on people. Customer as well as team members are base of success and failure of a project in agile environment (Mohammad et al., 2013). Agile methodology is based on some core values and principles that should be followed by an agile practitioner while developing projects in agile environment (Stellman & Greene, 2014). The main characteristics of agile includes its iterative nature, high customer satisfaction and quick adaptation to changes (Sharma, Sarkar, & Gupta, 2012).

Software development is one of the highest demands in all over the world. We use software development techniques to solve the problems and to satisfy customers. Agile software development is a conceptual framework for software; it is also a group of software development methods based on iterative development. In 2001, agile software development was created by seventeen people with a desire to find alternative approaches to software development. The most important thing about agile methods are team work, conveying information to the team, face to face conversation, and satisfy the customer. There are various methodologies but I am going to describe the most popular ones.

A single definition of agile methodology in software development is not easily found. We should consider agile methodology as an umbrella under which various agile methodologies rest. I will define agile methodology as an alternative to traditional ‘heavyweight’, linear project management methodologies that is marked by an adherence to and reliance on the individual not as a replaceable part, constant interactions between the project team and the customer, adaptiveness, customer collaboration, and responsiveness to change throughout a product’s development, which is perpetual.

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.

When developing a software product there are two different project management approaches that can be taken: waterfall or agile. Both waterfall and agile have their advantages and disadvantages but agile has become the more popular of the two, due to its ease of change during the devolvement process.

/**Agile methodologies are a relatively new set of software development approaches created to tackle the issues of traditional methods and increase productivity and accuracy of software systems produced by a self-organised team of developers. Agile methods increase productivity which means more frequent delivery to clients and faster completion times. This shorter time span between deliveries means high-priority functions are implemented first and so more value is delivered to the clients during development, so software has increased value to the customer earlier in the development process so customers are happier that the development is going well because they get a working piece of software and so there is higher development visibility for clients.

Team members with diverse skillset and knowledge would be useful when developing software using agile. This whole team approach encourages effective and efficient team. It allows rapid project delivery. Project feedback is possible at early stages of software development lifecycle (Cockburn, Alistair, and Williams 2003). Therefore agile methodology is considered as cost as well as time effective.

The basic idea of this agile software development life cycle is to develop a system or a process through repeated cycles with smaller portions at a time. This will help the software developers to have a good understanding of what they have learnt during the development phases than the earlier versions of the system. The possible advantage of the iterative and the incremental model combined is that with each and every iteration design modifications are to be made and new