Agile Methods: A Fashion That Has Not Become Outdated

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Introduction
This article aims to discuss the topic “Are Agile Methods now no more than a fashion
that has become out-of-date?". A brief discussion of an overview of agile methods is
provided in this report. A brief discussion of the advantages and the disadvantages of agile
methods is provided in this report. A discussion of the current popularity of agile methods is
provided in this report.
The method of agile software development is the approach for development of
software in which the solutions and the requirements grows with the connected effort of the
teams that are cross-functional and are self-organising and the customers (Fitzgerald et al.
2013). This development method governs the evolutionary development, continual
improvement, early delivery, and adaptive planning and it also encourages the response to
change that is swift and flexible.
Discussion
The method of agile software development is widely used in the present times. The
popularity of the agile methods is due to the following advantages that are provided by the
agile methods:
 Useful software is used for providing satisfaction to the customers by the delivery that is
rapid and continuous
 Regular and constant interaction among the developers and the people of business
 Often, the delivery of working software is done
 Constant adaption to the changes in circumstances
 Regular detailing of the good design and technical excellence
 The communication that is done personally is the best kind of communication

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 The changes in the requirements of the customers that appear significantly late is
accepted and the changes are made
Some of the disadvantages of the agile methods are:
 Lacks in the importance of documentation and designing
 In the situations of any deliverables of software, specifically in the large ones, there is a
difficulty in the assessment of the effort that is required in the beginning stage of the life
cycle of software development
 The decision making capability resides in the possession of the senior programmers,
which is essential in the development process of software (Gandomani et al. 2013). This
eliminates the opportunities of the new programmers to learn new things without the use
of experienced resources
The method of agile software development is done for software development where the
solutions and the requirements grows. The agile methods is the most popular software
development tool that is preferred over the other tools of software development (Campanelli
and Parreiras 2015). The use of agile methods is still not outdated because the agile methods
offers several opportunities for team engagement and the stakeholders-during, end and before
of each phase of software development. With the involvement of the clients in all the steps of
development process of software, it provides collaboration among the project team and the
client that can be comprehensive. This collaboration among the team and the client provides
an increase in the opportunities for the team in understanding the vision of the client (Dick et
al. 2013). This method also provides a greater transparency among the project team and the
clients. The importance of transparency in the projects is because this delivers the
prioritisation of the features for the planning of iteration and the review of sessions for
frequently building software that needs to contain new features. With the utilisation of the