...CIS 517 ASSIGNMENT 2 WATERFALL AND AGILE To purchase this visit here: http://www.activitymode.com/product/cis-517-assignment-2-waterfall-and-agile/ Contact us at: SUPPORT@ACTIVITYMODE.COM CIS 517 ASSIGNMENT 2 WATERFALL AND AGILE Research agile methodologies including SCRUM and extreme programming (XP). Write a two to three (2-3) page paper in which you: Explain waterfall methodologies and identify their relationship to the PMBOK® process groups. Explain agile methodologies and identify their relationship to the PMBOK® process groups. Analyze the need for waterfall and agile methodologies. Explain the advantages of extreme programming (XP) and analyze the advantages of its application in high-budget short-time projects. Explain the factors to consider when selecting a project management methodology (Waterfall vs Agile). Use at least two (2) quality resources in this assignment. Note: Wikipedia and similar Websites do not qualify as quality resources. Your assignment must follow these formatting requirements: Be typed, double spaced, using Times New Roman font (size 12), with one-inch margins on all sides; citations and references must follow APA or school-specific format. Check with your professor for any additional instructions. Include a cover page containing the title of the assignment, the student’s name, the professor’s name, the course title, and the date. The cover page and the reference page are not included in the required assignment page...
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...IntroductIon to AgIle SoftwAre development June 2007 tAble of contentS Executive summary............................................................................................................................................................ 3 Agile vs. waterfall: practical differences in methodology .............................................................. 4 Two agile software development methodologies ................................................................................. 6 Xp ......................................................................................................................................................................................................... 6 The XP development process ....................................................................................................................................................... 6 XP rules and concepts ......................................................................................................................................................................7 Scrum ................................................................................................................................................................................................. 8 Scrum management........................................................................................................................................................................ 8 Scrum development .......
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...There is no IT meeting that does not talk and debate endlessly about Waterfall vs. Agile development methodologies. Feelings run strong on the subject with many considering Agile ‘so of the moment’, just so right, while Waterfall is thought to be passé! But, before deciding which is more appropriate, it is essentially important to provide a little background on both. Waterfall A classically linear and sequential approach to software design and systems development, each waterfall stage is assigned to a separate team to ensure greater project and deadline control, important for on-time project delivery. A linear approach means a stage by stage approach for product building, e.g. 1. The project team first analyses, then determining and prioritising business requirements / needs. 2. Next, in the design phase business requirements are translated into IT solutions, and a decision taken about which underlying technology i.e. COBOL, Java or Visual Basic, etc. etc. is to be used. 3. Once processes are defined and online layouts built, code implementation takes place. 4. The next stage of data conversion evolves into a fully tested solution for implementation and testing for evaluation by the end-user. 5. The last and final stage involves evaluation and maintenance, with the latter ensuring everything runs smoothly. However, in case a glitch should result, changing the software is not only a practical impossibility, but means one has to go right back to the beginning...
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...Operation Suppy Chain & Management David Imboden, Livia Artuso, Clariss Chow, Youssef Hautier, Topic: Are Agile development / Scrum approaches applicable to other product domain than the software development? 1. Introduction The development of a new product is key for a company. The products can be very simple (a new fork in the Ikea assortment) to extremely complex (let’s think about a new airplane for Airbus), their development still requires a multidisciplinary approach, implies a lot of risks, a lot of uncertainties and usually involves a large amount of resources and cash. But what is exactly product development? We define it as the set of processes that will bring a concept or an idea to product that is used by the final customer, in volume. Other definitions can be found in the literature. We should note that Product Development can be applied to very different domain. Physical (or hardware) products (like the two examples stated above) are the first to come to mind. This category also encompasses products like a new molecule in the biotech industry or a new aliment for the pet-food industry. Millions of new products are launched every year. The time to market, the quality, the fit with the customer need, the integration with the other parts of the company (Customer Service, Manufacturing) are all critical to the success of this new product. It is no surprise that both the academic and industry world committed to develop better processes to handle Product Development...
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...Primavera Gets Agile School CIS/525 Instructor November 22, 2014 Primavera Gets Agile There is always a best practice and critical success factors an organization can adopt to turn the organization’s entire development organization around in the most amazing way. Prior to adopting agile project management, Primavera development organization experienced problems. Agile techniques should be considered when solving such problems while implementing strategies in adopting agile methodologies. There will be challenges and obstacles that Primavera will face when transitioning to agile project management, but with hard work, these obstacles can be tackled. From since 2004, Agile has continued to have an impact on Primavera project management and its economic growth. Problems prior to Agile Some may look at a company like Primavera and think that they had all the necessary software to operate flawlessly, but that was never the case. While scuffling like everyone else, Primavera once maintained the tradition waterfall development approach with a team working tirelessly to dispense high-quality services to a growing and diverse market, as swiftly as possible. In an attempt to complete projects on time, team members had to follow a typical cycle that demanded late hours and weekends. Project managers basically used what was called a command-and-control philosophy. In other words, only managers made decisions without consulting or getting input from their team. This cause the relationship...
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...Pearson Case Analysis I. Executive Summary: Pearson’s Digital Learning Division’s Vice President of Product Management, Greg Adams-Woodford, is beginning to feel the growing pains of a new product development process that he launched after joining the organization one-year ago. The process transformation from a “Waterfall” to “Aigle” methodology was introduced as a means to tackle a disconnect between what the customer wants and what the software developers are producing. As Adams-Woodford works to develop a product road map, he is faced with three critical decisions: 1. Move from one form of the Aigle process (Scrum) to a newer process (Kanban), 2. Extend the Aigle methodology to other teams within the business unit, and 3. Expand Aigle to other teams outside of the business unit in the organization at large. Recommendations for Adam-Woodford are as follows: * Meet with a software development product managers and other key influencers within the business function to analyze, evaluate, and decide to move forward with a Scrum or Kanban process, * After a sufficient Aiglie problem resolution with the software development group, Adam-Woodford should expand Aigle to other teams within the business unit deemed appropriate, * And postpone extending the Aigle process to other Pearson business units in order to focus on the current, more urgent needs, within his product management scope. II. Problem: How can the VP within the Digital Learning Division of the North American...
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...Abstract: Agile methods in recent years have emerged as a new paradigm in software development, which promises to address some of the problem areas of traditional approaches by freeing some of its constraints. In an attempt to produce an improvised process to designing and implementation and thereby to produce qualitative deliverables, several pioneering efforts have been suggested. This paper examines two such methodologies that promote agility: eXtreme Programming and SCRUM. The process, the values and principles of the XP and SCRUM are described in detail. Crucial feature differences between XP and SCRUM and the advantages and disadvantages of both methodologies are also discussed. Keywords— XP, SCRUM, Agile INTRODUCTION The software development industry has been evolved to become the most important industries of time. This industry employs many practitioners world wide to create the most essential products that is been used to extend our lifestyles. From controlling the production of food we eat to providing safety and control of the vehicles, software has become the embodiment of the world's most valuable intellectual property.[15] In last few years, the trend to more agile has been the most significant event we have seen since the application of traditional software development process. The agile software methods and development is practices based approach which is empowered with values, principles and practices which make the I. software development process more easy...
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...Study on Agile software development methodologies A B M Moniruzzaman abm.mzkhan@gmail.com Dr Syed Akhter Hossain aktarhossain@daffodilvarsity.edu.bd Abstract Today‘s business environment is very much dynamic, and organisations are constantly changing their software requirements to adjust with new environment. They also demand for fast delivery of software products as well as for accepting changing requirements. In this aspect, traditional plan-driven developments fail to meet up these requirements. Though traditional software development methodologies, such as life cycle-based structured and object oriented approaches, continue to dominate the systems development few decades and much research has done in traditional methodologies, Agile software development brings its own set of novel challenges that must be addressed to satisfy the customer through early and continuous delivery of the valuable software. It‘s a set of software development methods based on iterative and incremental development process, where requirements and development evolve through collaboration between self-organizing, cross-functional teams that allows rapid delivery of high quality software to meet customer needs and also accommodate changes in the requirements. In this paper, we significantly indentify and describe the major factors, that Agile development approach improves software development process to meet the rapid changing business environments. We also provide a brief comparison of agile development...
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...Edition CA Technologies Ag i l e Learn to: • Improve developer productivity • Put the most critical information at developers’ fingertips • Deliver great results with all your Agile projects Mario E. Moreira Michael Lester Steve Holzner CA Technologies provides your organization with the most complete and proven project and portfolio management solutions in the industry today. CA Agile Vision can help you get better visibility into your deliverables, costs, and resources for all your sprints and projects. CA Agile Vision runs on Force.com, one of the leading cloud management platforms. Delivered 100% over the Web, the solution is available anywhere, fully secure, rapidly scalable, and is supported by world-class facilities and professionals. These materials are the copyright of Wiley Publishing, Inc. and any dissemination, distribution, or unauthorized use is strictly prohibited. Agile FOR DUMmIES ‰ CA TECHNOLOGIES EDITION by Mario E. Moreira, Michael Lester, and Steve Holzner These materials are the copyright of Wiley Publishing, Inc. and any dissemination, distribution, or unauthorized use is strictly prohibited. Agile For Dummies®, CA Technologies Edition Published by Wiley Publishing, Inc. 111 River Street Hoboken, NJ 07030-5774 www.wiley.com Copyright © 2010 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Indianapolis, Indiana Published by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Indianapolis, Indiana No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval...
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...INTRODUCTION: A project can be defined as a process of creating a new product or service. It has a beginning and an end as stated by (Project Management Institute 2008). The outcome of a project is said to be tangible or intangible, even though it may present some project deliverable and activities, this will not change the unique characteristic of a project. However, the most essential part of a project are the relations stuck between the planning variables and their influences on project success. Most time managers advocate that project is successful if it meet the important target, namely, appropriate specification, cost, time and quality. This has significant benefits to organizations. However, Proper analysis will be done on how Waterfall and Agile Project Management carried out various projects successfully, and how the most recent computing projects turned out. WATERFALL PROJECT MANAGEMENT APPROACH This is a traditional approach, the waterfall model is a systems development life cycle model for software engineering (Project Management Institute 2008). Often considered the classic approach to the systems development life cycle, the waterfall model describes a development method that is linear and sequential. Waterfall development has distinct goals for each phase of development. The Waterfall approach suggests that the assessment of risks should be carried out at the beginning of the project. To carry out risk management in waterfall, it is done by first gathering the project...
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...2012 Waterfall vs. Agile Methodology Mike McCormick MPCS, Inc. Revised Edition 8/9/2012 Waterfall vs. Agile Methodology Contents Waterfall vs. Agile Model Comparison .........................................................................................3 Conceptual Difference.................................................................................................................3 Efficiency ....................................................................................................................................4 Suitability ....................................................................................................................................4 Waterfall Model Diagram .............................................................................................................5 Explanation of the Waterfall Model ..............................................................................................5 Phase I: Requirements................................................................................................................6 Phase II: Analysis .......................................................................................................................6 Phase III: Design.........................................................................................................................6 Phase IV: Coding ....................................................................................................
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...Adaptation of Agile Practices: A Systematic Review and Survey Budsadee Kongyai and Edi Edi School of Computing Blekinge Institute of Technology SE-371 79 Karlskrona Sweden This thesis is submitted to the School of Engineering at Blekinge Institute of Technology in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Science in Software Engineering. The thesis is equivalent to 40 weeks of full time studies. Contact Information: Author(s): Budsadee Kongyai Address: Kungsmarksvägen 43 Karlskrona 371 44, Sweden E-mail: nune.budsadee@gmail.com Edi Edi Address: Kungsmarksvägen 57 Karlskrona 371 44, Sweden E-mail: edi198@gmail.com University advisor(s): Dr. Jürgen Börstler School of Computing EMSE Co-supervisors: Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. H. Dieter Rombach (TU Kaiserslautern) Dr. Ove Armbrust (Fraunhofer IESE, Germany) School of Computing Blekinge Institute of Technology SE-371 79 Karlskrona Sweden Internet: www.bth.se/com Phone : +46 455 38 50 00 Fax : +46 455 38 50 57 Abstract Context. Due to the uniqueness of software projects there is no single Agile development approach that ideally fits all project contexts. Each software project is unique, whether in its subject area, development team, or project size. Because of this, adapting Agile practices according to project circumstances is a must. There has been a number of literature published discussing Agile practices adaptation topic. However, it is still unclear how to adapt Agile practices....
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...Executive Summary The report covers the Agile development methods, what they are and how they are beneficial and help maintain desired levels of quality by keeping room for change in the system that may be requested by the client. We identify the problems of existing techniques and problems faced by those techniques in the current environment. We also compare dominant techniques such as the Waterfall development model with Agile methods to show how Agile methods are advantageous in the current dynamic business environment. The report also occurs Lean software development, what it is and the common areas that it has with Agile development. How using both the methods can result in even faster delivery of product to the customer and help reduce costs incurred during defect detection and correction, identification of common error categories and giving developers more responsibility increases better quality code and building of knowledge base. Table of Contents Executive Summary......................................................................................................................................1 Introduction...................................................................................................................................................1 Problem Identification...................................................................................................................................1 Agile development Technique............................
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...for Succeeding with Agile “Understanding the mechanics of an agile process is just not enough. Mike Cohn has compiled a superb and comprehensive collection of advice that will help individuals and teams with the intricate task of adopting and adapting agile processes to fit their specific challenges. This book will become the definitive handbook for agile teams.” —Colin Bird, Global Head of Agile, EMC Consulting “Mike Cohn’s experience working with so many different organizations in the adoption of agile methods shines through with practical approaches and valuable insights. If you really want agile methods to stick, this is the book to read.” —Jeff Honious,Vice President, Innovation, Reed Elsevier “Mike Cohn has done it again. Succeeding with Agile is based on his experience, and all of our experience, with agile to date. He covers from the earliest days of the project up to maturity and offers advice for the individual, the team, and the enterprise. No matter where you are in the agile cycle, this book has something for you!” —Ron Jeffries, www.XProgramming.com “If you want to start or take the next step in agile software development, this book is for you. It discusses issues, great solutions, and helpful guidelines when scaling up in agile projects. We used the guidelines from this book extensively when we introduced agile in a large, FDA-regulated department.” —Christ Vriens, Department Head of MiPlaza, part of Philips Research “If making the move to agile has always baffled...
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...user. This system was developed with this in mind. This proposed system relies on the user logging in to the system after identifying five pictures they uploaded earlier from among a grid of twenty five pictures. By selecting the five correct pictures which they uploaded, the system was able to successfully authenticate the user. Using these pictures greatly reduced the mental load on a user who was required to remember strong passwords that ended up being compromised (Badre 2002). The use of pictures or graphical images for authentication or access control is a practice called biometrics that is gaining popularity in establishing system security today. Due to the need to deliver a solution in the shortest time possible the agile methodology was employed here. This project was considered a rapid applications development (RAD) project (Martin 1991). The phases of the project were time bound to ensure the rapidity of development. Prototyping as a rapid application development technique was heavily relied upon to accomplish this (Amowitz, Arent & Berger 2006). Studies reveal that Kuwait seemed to have scarcity of...
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