Advantages Of Agile Methodology

With the ever rapid changing requests needed to be developed in a short period of time demanded by business today, the traditional development methodologies such as waterfall method is no longer being an option for project managers (Livermore, 2008). Hence, agile methodology is proposed to overcome this issue. In this essay, we will be discussing on the difference between agile and traditional method, the hitches faced in agile, the things to consider when adopting agile, the project management methodologies, how tools are chosen for agile development, how testing are performed in agile environment, how developers adopt this methodology and the transitions needed to move into agile methodology.

In general, agile methodology differs from traditional methodology in terms of the framework used. Agile methodology uses the iterative-incremental approach whereby it has mini system development life cycles for each cycle. On the other hand, the traditional method

Agile methodology consists of roughly twelve principles and here we will bbe elaborating on a few of them. In agile methodology, the main priority is user satisfaction through early and continuous delivery of software whereby these software must be just right and not being over developed or under developed. Furthermore, in agile methodology, the main measure of progress is a workable software and thus if one plans to use this methodology, for each iteration, the software developed must be functional. Usually for each iteration, the functional requirements developed over the time while keeping it as simple as possible. This is also done because this methodology does not require users to have a defined set of requirements right from the start. These requirements can be added along the process. If a project manager thinks that he or she can adhere to these principles, then agile will be good for the