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Formal study about trends and prevalence of agile vs traditional methodology in the industry
Has there been a formal study about the prevalence of agile vs traditional (e.g. waterfall) software development methodology in the IT industry? And how fast the agile share is growing (assuming it ...
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Is the following diagrams correct for RAD and Agile methodologies?
I do not know if this would be the right stack exchange site to ask this question but I have been researching on RAD (Rapid Application Development) and Agile methodologies and was trying to find ...
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Development methodologies when hundred of developers are working on one single solution?
We are an organisation consisting of around 200 developers that are working continuously on one single product (using the revision control Git) which is planned to be released at a certain date.
Due ...
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I want to adopt an agile methodology - in a company that has NO process at all? [closed]
I'm in a team of two developers and currently we have no formal processes for software development and testing - I'd like to adopt one solo initially.
Where I need some opinions is really on the ...
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Should programmers talk with customers / users according to MSF / agile methods?
I've just read two statements that seem to be very different:
Des Weiteren ist mangelnde Kommunikation zwischen Programmierern und Nutzern eine nicht zu vernachlässigende Quelle von unzureichenden ...
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What is Developer Anarchy?
I've been reading about Developer (or Programmer) Anarchy, which seems to be billed as a post-Agile development methodology. I found a few resources on it (1, 2) but it doesn't seem to be a lot out ...
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Agile and different facet of software development
It is said that the Kanban methodology is suited for software maintenance and support areas, whereas Scrum is more suited for new product development. No process or methods are complete. Using the ...
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How to adopt scrum agile methodology for a small .Net team [closed]
I am working on a small product based company developing .Net applications. There is a small team with 5-6 developers. I am a person responsible for planning everything. But my primary role is ...
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How should I pitch moving to an agile/iterative development cycle with mandated 3-week deployments?
I'm part of a small team of four, and I'm the unofficial team lead (I'm lead in all but title, basically). We've largely been a "cowboy" environment, with no architecture or structure and everyone ...
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What is the difference between Agile Modeling and the Agile Manifesto? [closed]
By searching for the different software development methods I found that there are two AM:
Agile Modeling
Agile Manifesto
The problem is that I can't get the difference between them. If one is a ...
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What are the monetary benefits of going agile? [closed]
Why go agile? This is the first question that comes to my mind when I think of going agile. What are the possible financial benefits one can achieve from going agile?
Most of us certainly like to ...
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What issues should we be aware of converting to Agile/Scrum with a project that's underway? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
What have you seen go wrong when introducing SCRUM?
Let me preface the question by telling you that our company doesn't have any formal "thou shalt..." processes in ...
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Scientific evaluation of programming methodologies [closed]
There are now a a variety of programming methodologies: Scrum, Extreme Programming, Kanban to just name a few. Most of them combine several more basic techniques (for example frequent iterations). ...
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How do I go about choosing a development lifecycle model model?
Based on this question about alternatives to the agile philosophy and its answers and comments I thought it might be useful to discuss what goes into the decision of what "methodology" to use when at ...
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Large Ecommerce Site Topology and Deployment Guidelines
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I am a lead engineer for a highly trafficked eCommerce website (upwards of 1m page views an hour). For various reasons we have the opportunity to rebuild large portions of our ...
