The Integration of Agile Methodology in the Development of Software Project
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2024-08
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The British University in Dubai (BUiD)
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Throughout the last century, agile methodologies approaches have developed as a key fresh perspective of planning and implementing project activities. Agile proponents have produced a number of assertions regarding the advantages of agile approaches, such as increased group productivity and effectiveness, improved software reliability, and business effectiveness. Although latest evidence on the usage of agile methods has yielded promising findings, a variety of other agile process proponents' prescriptive assertions have yet to be validated.
It has long been believed that software development processes are influenced by ecological and other variables. This implies that the effectiveness of a software production methodology is determined by relationships among the atmosphere's characteristics and the production product's characteristics. Conventional software techniques have been impossible to generate high standard of quality of implementation, especially with a relatively large starting expenditure, according to agile proponents, since the software development life cycle is fundamentally unpredictable and experimental. However, agile proponents say that the software creation methodology is much closer like to that of a fresh technology design approach than it is to that of a design phase. Agile approaches, as a result, have incorporated methods, approaches, and accompanying technology that are supposed to improve production performance. Nevertheless, as discussed in Chapter 2, a large number of agile methodologies' prescriptive claims have not yet been analyzed, and the approaches themselves depict only partially homogeneous results.
The findings reveal that the amount to which agile methods are used has a beneficial impact on project performance. Project management measures, product attributes, and anticipated economic implications all had substantial implications on expected successful project views. On the other side, the influence of the amount to which the agile technique is used on project management success characteristics was demonstrated to be nonlinear. Whereas the benefits of agile usage were typically favorable, the gradient of the impact had previously been significantly reduced at the average. drastically growing once more The use of the agile technique has proven to be beneficial in the development of a software project. The findings revealed that, in most models, the implementation of agile methods has a positive influence on project success; nevertheless, the benefits were diverse. The use of agile impact has a regular favorable direct influence on the Quality element. In many scenarios, greater quality was associated to higher levels of agile approach adoption, however the effects were not linear. While the use of agile methodologies was consistently high, the consequences were complex, with some good and negative effects happening within each paradigm. In the architectural difficulty assessments, all impacts were significant and in the predicted pattern. In the methodological difficulties scenarios, the impact on expenditure was non-significant, the impact on schedule was varied in orientation, and the result on breadth was as expected. Eventually, the dynamic analysis is shown, had a considerable, but reversed, impact on the budget outcome, while the implication on time and scope results was as anticipated.
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agile methodology, project management, software development