PART C: Research – Agile Methodologies
1. Introduction
Agile software development methodologies are based on iterative development whereby requirements and solutions evolve through collaboration between self-organizing cross-functional teams. It is used to structure, plan and control the process of developing an information system. There are several software methods also known as agile techniques such as Scrum, Extreme Programming, Adaptive Software Development and Lean Software Development.
An agile manifesto is a document used to uncover better ways of software development by implementation and following specific values and principles. Through this work; developers have come to value individuals and interactions over processes and tools,
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Feature-driven design (FDD) is an iterative and incremental software development process that follows the principles of the agile manifesto. The aim is to develop high-level features, scope and domain object models in order to plan, design, develop and test the specific requirements and tasks based on the overarching feature that they belong to. However, there are advantages and disadvantages to using this type of software development process. To begin with, requirements organized by functional area must be fairly well understood and so a design is created. From the design is derived a feature list at which point the iterative implementation cycles can …show more content…
Extreme Programming (XP)
Kent Beck, Ward Cunningham and Ron Jeffries formulated extreme Programming in 1999. The other contributors are Robert Martin and Martin Fowler.
There are four basic values in XP:
Communication, Simplicity, Feedback, Courage.
Principles
• Rapid feedback
• Assume Simplicity
• Incremental Changes
• Embrace Change
• Quality Work
The four basic activities of Extreme Programming are coding, testing, listening, and designing.
Fundamentals of XP include:
1. Writing unit tests before programming and keeping all of the tests running at all times. 2. Integrating and testing the whole system--several times a day. 3. Producing all software in pairs, two programmers at one screen. 4. Starting projects with a simple design that constantly evolves to add needed flexibility and remove unneeded complexity.
5. Putting a minimal system into production quickly and growing it in whatever directions prove most valuable.
Advantages;
• Rapid development.
• Immediate responsiveness to the customer’s changing requirements.
• Focus on low defect rates.
• System returning constant and consistent value to the customer.
• High customer satisfaction.
• Reduced costs.
• Team cohesion and employee satisfaction.
Kaylee Le MIS 201 U2 Assignment 10/18/2015 CERT/CERT-CC The development and dependence on the internet, and also complexity of interloper skills, additional resources is on demand. To fulfill this demand, the CERT/CC became one part of the larger CERT Division. The CERT is stand for the coordination center of the computer emergency response team (CERT) for the Software Engineering Institute (SEI). The CERT Division is funded mostly by the U.S. Department of Defense and the Department of Homeland Security.
Brief Summary of the lecture contents, lab activity, group discussion and reading materials Week five, we continue learning key components of web programming, and this week we are going to be trained in two of the most sensitive and important practices on internet nowadays; online payments and security practices. We will be installing, configuring and operating eComerce applications, really important especially if you wan to be a good programmer and/or system administrator. After reading the material provided and becoming familiar with the topics we had to use this model to create some server script.
Contents Terms of Reference 2 Procedure 2 Findings 3 Current Structure 3 New Structure 4 Employee Relationships 4 Instructing Staff 5 Contingency Variables 5 Conclusion 6 Recommendations 6 References 7 Appendix A 8 Terms of Reference I am a HNC business student. I am writing this report as part of my course. This assessment covers outcome 4 of the Managing People and Organizations' class.
In order to improve employee morale and satisfaction,
According to Brooks (2015), when employees are fully satisfied, they commit their efforts towards attaining the set goals and objectives. They also see the reason of being associated with the company, hence reducing employee turnover rates. The other strength that the company has is better reputation. Based on the case study, close to 90 percent of employees from the survey indicated that the employees were willing to remain in this company because of its positive reputation. One of the internal weakness identified is a challenge to find and retain employees who can deliver positive results to the shareholders.
the project, this will be include creating the interfaces, building the application logic, creating the database and integrating all the three tiers to meet the functional requirements laid out in the project specification. Testing phase – 1 week This stage involves unit and integration testing of all the modules implemented in the previous stage following the test plans laid out in design phase. Test results are to be created to demonstrate the effectiveness. Testing will focus on security, performance, usability and accessibility of the
Iterative and incremental approach is a better way of developing requirements and modules as well. 4. Requirements provide a complete operating picture of the solution, which helps in taking correct decisions during initial stages of software development life cycle (SDLC). Iterative and Incremental Approach This approach allows us to make changes before it is too late.
Increased Work Efficiency / Productivity A team that has good culture of teamwork and mutual motivation will make the members more productive and smarter. Such a team where seamless and effective relationships exist, members are poised to learn from one another, develop skills and leverage on such internally gained skills to expedite work processes thereby increasing overall efficiency, reducing downtimes and knowledge gaps. Collaboration among such team members will make members to perform at their best by working on what they do best.
Where some people see rubbish, Rosie Revere sees inspiration. Alone in her room at night, shy Rosie constructs great inventions from odds and ends. Hot dog dispensers, helium pants, python-repelling cheese hats. Rosie’s gizmos would astound—if she ever let anyone see them.
These features include sophisticated competitive market states, and demands such as the need for faster development and supply of new, differentiated projects and services (time dimension) as well as an amplified productivity, while insuring a higher level of excellence and meeting anticipations of clients; the legendary faster, low-cost, yet improved (J. Wiley and sons, 2013). The agile approach is hasty and coherent and built on iterative and incremental growth where requirements and results advance through collaboration (Rubin and Rubin, 2010). This approach can be seen as a process which breaks down a large complex project in to numerous less complex or rather simple projects as well as outlining the scope for every one of these less complex
Unit 2 discussion Assignment Using one of the referenced website articles discuss how OS creates the illusion of virtualization by virtualizing the CPU. By running one process, then stopping it and running another, and so forth, the OS can promote the illusion that many virtual CPUs exist when in fact there is only one physical CPU (or a few). last week we learn and discussed about one of basic and fundamental concepts and what about of the operating system and in generally how it 's working and it 's own component that related to complete the work as a group like a team. from this perspective, I would use one of the reference website articles that given for this week and introduced to the concepts of operating systems and discuss one of the most fundamental abstraction that the operating system provides to us to use .
Strong reputation and a recognizable brand 3. Good quality products at a low price 4. Value added in store services. Ex. Financial services.
It is an approach that gives more value to the customers by satisfying their expectations on key quality/service/features/performance attributes while exceed their price expectations by providing at low costs. Companies that offer products/services relatively at low prices and offer substantial differentiation on
Assignment: Teradyne Corporation: Jaguar Project Case Students Name Institutional Affiliation Teradyne Corporation: The Jaguar Project Case Introduction Teradyne corporation is a semiconductor test machine manufacturer. The new range of testing equipment had been eagerly awaited since the traditional system had exhibited quite a number of challenges in project development. The project introduced useful aspects of project management such as formal project tracking tools, effectively and adequately designed development process and the principle of upfront planning. O’Brien’s strategies had experienced much success especially in hardware development but seemed to struggle in the software department in software implementation. The main question is `Did the new tools affect development processes.
Employees are the most important part for any organization. They are the associate degree and are the integral part of the organization, without the employees the company cannot imagine to grow and cannot additionally be ineffectual to realize something not even a single goal of the organization. Turnovers lead to more turnovers. Herd mentality is what men and women