With shifting goal-posts driven by investor and market conditions, a fair chance of having pivot points, and an uncertain future, developing software that can be modified or redesigned easily is critical. Having Agile practices as an underlying piece of your software development workflow gives you insurance that hours put into development will not be ‘wasted’ in the event of big changes.
Productivity in software development is typically tricky to measure. Is it how fast your team are doing something? It has been proven time and again that lines of code is a poor measure; are the number of modules an indicator? The degree of module reuse within a project, or from previous projects?
Ah, the eternal debate: Agile vs Waterfall, Waterfall vs Agile. When dipping your toes into custom software development you’ll encounter these two terms. They are software development life-cycle models that outline how a project is to be completed.
Fixed-price projects in Agile bring a new challenge to the table. Because they can be unfamiliar to a team, they require a stronger level of management.
Agile is a great platform for managing all the complex aspects of software development. However, it does not really offer much guidance when it comes to proper Quality Assurance practices.
In software development, prototyping is the advanced progress of a system, which helps clients and developers understand the requirements of a specific project.
Fixed price contracts can be rather tricky in a Scrum environment. Classic software development and Agile software development are very different from one another, and things that work in one environment don’t necessarily work in another.
Read moreThe simple answer is, yes. Agile teams still need to adhere to the basics of testing, however, their approach allows them to go about it quite differently.
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