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The Complete History of Agile Software Development

Agilemania

In the early 1990s, PC computing began to rise in organizations, but software development faced a hurdle. At that time, people used to call this crisis the “application delivery lag” or “the application development crisis.” But, business doesn’t work like that.

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Agile project management: A beginner's guide

Moira Alexander

Although Incremental software development methods go as far back as 1957, agile was first discussed in depth in the 1970s by William Royce who published a paper on the development of large software systems. Adaptive software development (ASD). Feature-driven development (FDD). RAD(Rapid Application Development).

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Half Agile Isn’t Real Transformation

Leading Agile

Since the popularization of “agile” software development following the publication of the Agile Manifesto in 2001, thousands of companies have undertaken “agile transformations” or “agile adoptions” of one form or another. Half-Agile Transformations.

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What is Agile Project Management?

The IIL Blog

In 1991 the book Rapid Application Development was published and an approach of the same name, RAD, was born. In 1994 the Dynamic System Development Method (DSDM) was created as project managers using RAD strived for increased governance and discipline when using an iterative style of managing projects.

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Agile project management- A tutorial

Binfire

In 2001 a group of software engineers and scientists in IT industry got together and wrote Agile Manifesto. Lean Software Development (LSD)- Another Agile method only used in software and IT industry. Rapid Application development (RAD)- Used in software industry only. This works much better for most large projects.

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Agile project management- A tutorial

Binfire

The conclusion was reached by the research team that an incremental approach in software development which creates a working prototype quickly and then incrementally improves the software both in terms of functionality and quality works much better for most large projects. Rapid Application development (RAD)- Used in software industry only.

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Waterfall Should Have Never Existed: Part 1

MPUG

In 2001, a group of software thought-leaders got together and hammered out the Agile Manifesto. The latter, Dynamic Systems Development Method (DSDM) came from the Rapid Application Development movement. They called themselves the ‘ Agile Alliance ’ and the Agile movement was born.