Agile

Question 1

Agile Manifesto

Answer 1

Individuals and Interactions over processes and tools.
Working software over comprehensive documentation.
Customer Collaboration over contract negotiation.
Responding to change over following a plan.

Question 2

Agile Principles

Answer 2

1. Highest priority is satisfy customer through early and continuous delivery of valuable software.
2. Welcome changing requirements at any stage.
3. Delivery of working software frequently
4. Business People and Developers work together daily.
5. Build projects around motivated individuals, give them support.
6. Face to Face conversation most effective way of conveying information
7. Working software primary measure of software
8. Agile processes promote sustainable development and pace.
9. Attention to technical excellence and good design
10. Simplicity is key
11. Best architectures, requirements and designs by self-organizing teams
12. Team reflects on how to be more effective regularly.

Question 3

Extreme Programming

Answer 3

1. On Site Customers: Involved in Dev process
2. Planning game: devs give cost estimate for user stories
3. Metaphor: come up with metaphor for whole project.
4. Small releases: Time between releases reduced.
5. Testing: Unit, system and acceptance tests frequently
6. Simple Designs: Should be quick not elaborate
7. Refactoring: rewrite code regularly and run unit tests
8. Pair Programming
9. Collective ownership: Anyone can edit anything, mistakes are everyone’s
10. Continuous integration: commit changes frequently
11. Coding standards: Enables effective teamwork
12. Sustainable Pace: no overtime but last week

Question 4

SCRUM

Answer 4

• Product and release backlog: List of features to be implemented by priority.
• Burn Down Chart: Make best estimate of time to complete backlog.

Question 5

Sprint in SCRUM

Answer 5

1 month period to deliver product. Review held after.

Question 6

Agile Methods

Answer 6

• Crystal
• Feature Driven Development
• Adaptive Software Development
• Dynamic System Development Model (DSDM)

Question 7

Agile Disadvantages

Answer 7

• Undefined Goals: Feature Creep
• Need clear, single invested customer
• All or nothing adoption of techniques
• Limited Team size