Agile Methodologies for Distributed Software development
The techno savvy business today is largely dependent on a vast number of software applications which can be used over the web, shared over the corporate network and across distantly located offices in a globalized environment. With every technological upgrading of IT hardware infrastructure or design and development of new devices, there is an ardent need for software programs to make the device user friendly.
Software development which is today as old as the computer hardware, were free-for-all techniques to profit from the computer technologies. For decades the professionals followed a ‘waterfall’ methodology of software development. This helped the organizations manage the software development life cycle process through five stages. These include requirement, design, implementation, verification and maintenance. However, reports on the adoption of such methodology helped enterprise realize that nearly 70% of the projects based on these methodology failed to meet the organizational objectives. These circumstances brought in the need for changes into agile methodology of software development.
The Agile methodology of software development is made up of a series of methodologies based on incremental and iterative development, with solutions and requirements evolving through collaboration between cross-functional groups. With the growth of globalization and spread of software development teams across geographically distant locations such software development methodology encourages adaptive planning, delivery and evolutionary development and facilitates quicker change management response.
Since agile methodologies embrace iterations, it is possible for small teams to work together with stakeholders and define quicker pro to-types, proof of concepts, or any other visual means to describe the problem to be solved. Such process enables the team to define the requirements for the iteration, develop the code, and run integrated test scripts, and verify the results. This helps to manage change at earlier stages of the software development life cycle. In other words these act as an unforeseen network that enables communications throughout the development lifecycle.
Leading IT giants provide the global enterprises with SCRUM methodology for using the various tools required in implementing agile technology in a distributed development platform. However, unlike other agile products, this can extended and configured so as to incorporate any organizational requirement. Further, with a single tool interface and agile methodology, organizations can implement ITIL , IT service management and integration of ALM tools. The other key features of agile methodology are that the best solutions besides supporting release management process also supports the entities and artifacts such as projects, releases, sprints, product backlogs, SCRUM meetings, test cases and change management issues.
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