Over the years we have come across many proponents of various Agile systems, selling their particular Agile brand with the idea that when a system does not work, dump it for another – their version. In the case of Jeff Sutherland and Ken Schwaber (who founded Scrum) and their legions of Scrum consultants, they frequently…
When planning an Agile software development project for a hardware product design, project design strategy can be greatly simplified by choosing a development environment that is designed for use with your industry standards (the first box to tick). It is even more important when the product safety is a key concern, requiring compliance with a…
In Waterfall Project Management, there is a top – down management style with an emphasis on upfront planning. The application lifecycle occurs in distinct phases in a specific order, with each phase completed before moving on to the next. In contrast, Agile Software project management is a much more fluid, – dynamic lifecycle, subject to…
In recent years, Agile has become a mainstream topic the basics of which even laymen interested in the world of software development can understand. Yet some Agile enthusiasts warn that even with the adoption of this modern software development framework booming across industries and across organizations of all sizes, whether all these companies really are…
Directors, CEO and Head of IT obviously want to have metrics that tells them how productive the team is. In case of software development, it is always a difficult task to estimate the costs and efforts of software development projects. There are several estimation models and methods but it is hard to tell which one…
One of the unstated requirements of Agile Adoption is to have the leadership onboard, however this is often not possible initially. Many large enterprises still use Waterfall Methodology, despite the obvious advantages of using the Agile Methodology. You might call it an Enterprise Waterfall legacy, where historically Waterfall has always (a very long time) been…
Can Agile Development, the method that enables teams of various disciplines to develop software simultaneously, and continuously revise all aspects of development, be harmful for your business? Can the Agile-Waterfall Hybrid method help you repair damage done by Agile? Agile, the software development method that enables teams to break down their development into iterations to…
Plan with Waterfall, execute with Agile, and speed up the whole process. Hybrid model is mentioned as a marriage of Agile and Waterfall methods. At the first look it might seem that these two methods are fundamentally so different that they could not possibly used together within in the same project. Although there are fundamental…
Requirements Management solutions enable companies to define and elaborate requirements and manage them throughout the development lifecycle and testing phases. Requirements are usually „owned” by clients and are typically determined by the marketplace, an external force constantly changing along with customer expectations. Since market demands and customers expectations change rapidly these days; requirements and requirements…
At Embedded World 2014 in Nuremberg we not only exhibited but collected useful feedback from people about their use of Agile practices. We asked the embedded industry to share their views about how Agile increases productivity and reduces time to market and about version control system and what importance the different modules (Requirements Management, Software…
The Agile-Waterfall Hybrid model is most commonly associated with product development when product is constituted by hardware and software parts. In this case the hardware components are developed by the traditional Waterfall/V-Model approach, and software development teams are using Agile/Scrum. Ask what is right for your business and compare, V-model vs Waterfall Processes How should…
Statement: „Agile projects are successful three times more often than non-agile projects, according to the CHAOS report from the Standish Group.“ The statistics define success, when software development projects are implemented within the given timeframe, on-budget and with the requested features. Does it mean that agile methods are the universal key to success? Is Agile better than Waterfall?…
Project managers often face long development cycles, constantly changing priorities that disrupt the product development process, and consequently, a final product that does not meet expectations. Traditional project management methodologies are often blamed for being unable to adapt to the changes which often makes testing products or changing alterations quite impossible. An Agile approach is often…
