Research Report on Agile

RESEARCH REPORT ON
AGILE

TABLE OF CONTENTS
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................1
MAIN BODY..................................................................................................................................1
Agile origin..................................................................................................................................1
Origin of lean and ways in which it has influenced Agile practice.............................................2
Similarities and differences between Scrum and Kanban as work methods...............................3
Reason because of which adopting Agile benefits an organisation.............................................4
CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................5
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................6

INTRODUCTION
Agile is a software development methodology which is used for development of software
or system by dividing whole project into manageable sub task that are required to be completed
in short phases of work. it helps in completing a project in faster time period and by maintaining
overall quality of work (ur Rehman & et. al. 2018). Agile methodology is one of the most
commonly used methodology which is used within organizations for development of software or
systems in an effective manner. This report will focus upon extensive research upon agile
methodology and will further focus upon describing origins of Agile, origins of Lean and ways
in which it has influenced Agile practice, similarities and differences between Scrum and
Kanban as work methods, and ways in which adoption of agile can benefit an organization.
MAIN BODY
Agile origin
Agile methodology was first of all originated in industry of software development as a
completely new way of managing development of software because before agile methodology
many projects were either failing or were taking much time to be completed and leaders of this
industry realized that they need to find a new and innovative approach for completing project
successfully and within specified deadlines (Wortman, Duncan & Melin, 2017). Due to this a
project management method was developed extreme programmers, software developers, testers
and group of other people involved within development of software. In response of unplanned
and unresponsive methods of project development it was quite effective and was primarily was
used for handling project management in almost all industries, organizations and market. It
simply helped in heavyweight software process development which further led to development
of four main values of agile, that are:
 Interactions and individuals over tools and processes
 Working software always over comprehensive documentation
 Customer collaboration always over contract negotiation
 Responding to change priority over following a plan
In order to achieve and maintain achievement of these four core values, 12 main principles were
developed that were main factors outlined within agile methodology that are required to be
adhered, 12 main principles are:
 Satisfy customers though continuous and early delivery of important and valuable work
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