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Micro-Optimizing
This gene represents the adaptive nature of agile processes. We employ the term “Optimizing” because, in most agile methodologies, teams…
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Refactoring
An incremental and feature driven approach to the development of software systems can produce sub-optimal architectures compared to a waterfall…
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Waterfall/BDUF
Figure 14 depicts the flow of a classic Waterfall/BDUF approach: In the Analysis phase the requirements for the ATM system…
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Iterative-Incremental
Another principle of the Agile Alliance is to “deliver working software frequently, from a couple of weeks to a couple…
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The Agile Genome
After review and analysis of many Agile methodologies, some of which were described in section 3.2, we come to find…
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Test Driven Development
Inspired by the “test first” philosophy from XP, Test Driven Development (TDD) starts the development process by coding automated test…
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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 to model Agile, we must…
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Agile Software Development
In the 1990s, as the large software firms were “maturing” along the CMM dimension, and coinciding with the internet boom…
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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 Software Engineering Institute (SEI) to…
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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 director at Lockheed Software Technology…
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Earned Value Management
Earned Value Management (EVM) is a management methodology for monitoring and controlling schedule, cost, and scope. It allows management to…
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A Brief Review of Relevant Software Engineering Topics
Large-scale software engineering organizations, particularly government contractors, have traditionally used plan-driven, heavyweight, waterfall-style approaches to the planning, execution, and monitoring…