Month: January 2017

One of the first decisions we have to make for each of our project implementations is “Which development methodology should we use?” This topic creates lots of discussion and very often major arguments. If you not have too much experience before, a definition of development methodology is in order. It is straight forward, it’s a way of organizing the work of software development. This is NOT about a style of project management or a specific technical approach, even though it creates big misunderstanding sometimes. The two basic, most popular methodologies are: Waterfall: “traditional” approach, basically is a sequential model where software development...

Agile Methodology There can be a lot of misunderstanding and different opinions about what the expression “agile” really means. When used in the context of software development, many people refer to it as a “methodology,” others say it’s a “framework” and still others consider it a “philosophy.” In fact, principles and methodologies that are considered “agile” were already existed before the word “agile” was used to describe them. However, the word “agile” became an expression used for a variety of techniques, philosophies, values and principles that were described as part of the Agile Manifesto. What is Agile Manifesto? In...