Tag Archives: Software project management

Traditional Software Development Methodologies

One of the main events in the software industry at the beginning of the new century is the appearance of the agile methodologies for software development. Most of the companies today are using these methodologies to manage their projects. They radically changed the landscape of the development methods.

Many companies today are using agile methodologies for software development
Many companies today are using agile methodologies for software development

The agile methods are based on a set of new principals of design and build – different from the principals used before. However to understand the agile methodologies first of all we need to understand the reason of their appearance. Thus we’ve to first understand the traditional methods of software development – their features, their pros and cons, and nevertheless we’ve to understand their relevance. Continue reading Traditional Software Development Methodologies

An Introduction to the Agile

Today the number of software projects has grown to an incredible extent. Software products are used practically everywhere and as it seems with the Internet in one hand and the mobile apps markets in other this trend is even more consolidated.

 

Agility in Software Development
The agile methods tend to be more responsive to a highly dynamic software projects.

 

Typically the software build processes are followed by the processes of controlling and managing software projects. In the very beginning of the software sciences these were methodologies that relied mainly on a detailed documentation, precise planning and higher degree of control. As it appears in many kind of projects this approach is simply ineffective. Most of those kind of projects are characterized as very dynamic, with many requirement changes that makes them difficult to predict and control with the traditional methods of software development. Continue reading An Introduction to the Agile