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The Agile Genome
After review and analysis of many Agile methodologies, some of which were described in section…
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Test Driven Development
Inspired by the “test first” philosophy from XP, Test Driven Development (TDD) starts the development…
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A Brief Review of Agile Methodologies
This research aims to produce a System Dynamics model of Agile software projects. In order…
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Agile Software Development
In the 1990s, as the large software firms were “maturing” along the CMM dimension, and…
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The Software Capability Maturity Model (SW-CMM)
To deal with the “software crisis” in the 1980s, the US Air Force prompted the…
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Waterfall and Big Design Up Front (BDUF)
The origins of the so-called “Waterfall” approach can be traced back to Winston Royce, a…
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Adopting Agile Practices in Large-Scale Software Engineering
Some of the “low hanging fruit”, what I will call “primitive agile genes”, are ones…
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Interpretation of results
With six Agile gene related switches (note, that we get Feature-driven plus Interactive-incremental automatically when…
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Case 5: Introducing Customer Involvement
We now introduce the Customer Involvement gene, which means that there will be some requirements…
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Case 3: Introduction of Refactoring
In this case we will allow refactoring. As described earlier (5.2.3) this means that when…