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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. Stakeholders and developers closely collaborate on a daily basis. Adaptive software development (ASD).

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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. This is very close to my heart. Lean Software Development (LSD)- Another Agile method only used in software and IT industry. Rapid Application development (RAD)- Used in software industry only.

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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. This is very close to my heart. Amazingly nature works.

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