Transition Of The Business, Client Organizations Are Progressively Looking At Using Agile Methodologies For Software Development

Agile is an iterative and incremental (evolutionary) approach to software development which is performed in a highly collaborative manner by self-organizing teams within an effective governance framework, with "just enough" ceremony, that produces high quality solutions, in a cost effective and timely manner which meets the changing needs of its stakeholders [1].

In Scrum, the collaboration between project work team is an important point for a successful project. Product Owner and Scrum Team have to collaborate together to get the most value for the business project. Scrum Master has an important role to create the best collaboration thru the project work. Because the Scrum Master connects between the product owner and the scrum team to ensure that the project is successfully done. However, Ken Schwaber in his book “Agile project management with Scrum” gives four case studies to explain the different kinds of collaboration between Product Owner and Scrum Team. For example, MegaBank is one of the largest financial institutions in the United States. It used Scrum to work on the second release

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 software development is defined as “set of methods that support incremental software development” [1]. Agility means responding to changes quickly and efficiently, flexible production system. Possible changes required in software projects are in requirements, budget, schedule, resources, technology and team. For successful software these changes should be reflected in the product. The term agile software development and the agile golden principles were defined in agile alliance meeting in 2001.

Scrum is defined as "a flexible, holistic product development strategy where a development team works as a unit to reach a common goal". (Hirotaka Takeuchi, 2014)

The main objective of the Scrum is that customer requirements which can be changed rapidly during software development. The sprint goal gives the development team some flexibility regarding the functionality implemented within the Sprint [3]. Iterations are called sprints and every sprint starts with a sprint planning meeting where the customer reviews and prioritizes requirements. A Scrum sprint ends in a Sprint Review, which is a quality gate for the sprint. It has a very important role in the product security risk management

Scrum is a simple framework used to organize teams and get work done more productively with higher quality [7]. Scrum provides a productive working environment in which it allows teams to choose the amount of work to be done and how to best complete the work. The application of Scrum enforces a few simple rules that have the potential to make a team self-organized into process that can achieve 5 to 10 times the productivity of a waterfall based process [5]. Scrum focuses on prioritizing work based on business value, improving the usefulness of what is delivered, increasing revenue,

The article "Using scrum in distributed agile development: A multiple case study" was a case study conducted with an interest toward proving the efficacy of scrum as a global software development approach (Paasivaara, Durasiewicz, Lassenius, 2009). The article makes little mention of XP as an approach, although it can be inferred that XP is also considered as a similarly useful method for increasingly distributed agile development. In order to explore the efficacy of scrum, the authors conducted a multiple case study involving three companies in Finland. The article begins with an introduction to scrum, and then discusses the methodology and results of the study. The authors found that scrum is a useful approach through which to succeed in the global economy, allowing companies to save money, communicate more efficiently, and coordinate the disparate offices that exist within a company.

Scrum (link to the page http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scrum_(software_development)) is a project management methodology. It is mostly used in I.T. and Software Development. Scrum is an iterative and incremental variant of Agile (link to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agile_software_development) Software Development Methodology that was created by Ken Schwaber (Link to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ken_Schwaber) and Jeff Sutherland (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeff_Sutherland) in the 90's. S

These are some reason that traditional processes replace agile processes mainly in small and simple projects. This is happening because of traditional methods’ limitations and deficiencies, which includes a slow adaptation to business requirements changes, and a tendency to go over budget and as well as behind schedule. The traditional methods also lack in providing improvements in simplicity, productivity and reliability phenomena’s. Despite of these limitations, traditional methods are widely used by many software developers in projects. Traditional methods are capable to provide high assurance, predictability, and stability and their nature is structural, straightforward, and methodological. Agile processes mainly focus on incremental as well as iterative development. Also, frequent deliveries after each sprints and customer collaboration are key element of Agile. Agile process has many advantage such as short lifecycle, low bug-rate, high customer satisfaction, and fast adaptation to changing requirements.

The world of technology is changing and advancing, in this day and age, faster than it ever has before. In order for businesses who create new technology and databases to not be left behind, they must find a way to better manage their groups in order to achieve upmost efficiency. Modern day tech managers can raise their effectiveness through the use of different processes, the first being agile project management, and the second being the scrum process. By using these processes group can ensure efficiency and effectiveness.

Being agile means focused on delivering streamlined projects, not wasting time documenting every meticulous detail of a product. Instead of documentations, development teams begin working almost immediately on delivering small incremental products. These incremental products enable customers and design teams to perform frequent sanity checks, making sure they are not spending an inordinate amount of time (and money) on features that deliver little to no value.

Agile methodology of Software development includes all the steps defined above but in continuous iteration cycles. Each iteration cycle is termed as a “Sprint”. Like any software project, business stakeholders initially define the business idea and business analysts work on putting an initial version of the business requirements document. Rather than building the whole product at once, the entire application is divided into numerous working modules. Each individual module is implemented within a sprint cycle. The modules selected for development in each sprint cycle undergo all the steps defined in the common software development lifecycle. Before the sprint cycle begins, User Stories are developed by business team and these user stories are handed over to the development team. A user story is a document created by the business analyst and it includes the initial requirement, use cases, negative scenarios, test cases and exceptions. In the beginning of each sprint cycle, these user stories are presented to the developers for effort estimation. Once the effort estimation is finalized the scrum master takes the responsibility of handing over the user stories to developers in the team in the form of tickets. A user story can be broken down into multiple tickets. There are many applications like JIRA, HPQC, Rally etc., that help the management team in ticket assignment process, sprint planning and progress tracking. The role of a developer is to work on those individual

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.

Scrum currently stands as the most popular Agile technology. Agile and scrum methodologies manage project unpredictability and dynamism, their purpose is to deliver working software products with saving money and time. The nature of Scrum methodology allows recognizing changes and adapting. Scrum is a lightweight approach in the Agile system of technologies and focuses on efficiency of project