AGILE SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT AND CHALLENGES

Kiran Jammalamadaka,V Rama Krishna

Abstract: Loyal and steady customer base alone can keep the organizations successful in the current turbulent business environment. In the current era of software engineering, the success of a business process is measured in terms of ‘customer satisfaction’ rather than any other criteria like meeting deadlines for delivery, optimization of data, architecture etc. Day by day, customers are turning out to be more demanding, as their expectations from the software are growing. In order to achieve customer satisfaction in a meaningful way, software engineers are looking for more effective development models. “Agile” is one such model, that fits the bill and therefore industry is looking at with interest .Is agile better than traditional waterfall model will agile work effectively with distributed teams which is most common in the current software engineering Phenomenon. This paper highlights a few challenges with Agile->scrum and gives an insight to the user whether the agile is THE SILVER BULLET

Keywords: waterfall, Agile, Scrum, XP, distributed teams

DOI: https://doi.org/10.15623/ijret.2013.0208021