Agile Projects
Agile mobile development is centered around the idea of iterative development, where requirements and solutions evolve through collaboration between self-organizing cross-functional teams. The benefit to Agile development is that it enables teams to deliver apps faster, with greater quality and predictablity, and greater flexibility to respond to change. Though there are two leaders in Ageile Methodologies, Scrum and Kanban, we mostly apply Scrum whenever possible due to its popularity.
Scrum is a subset of Agile. It is a lightweight process framework for agile development. Scrum process framework requires the use of development cycles called Sprints. A Scrum process is divided into the three categories of Roles, Artifacts, and Time Boxes. Scrum is used frequently to manage complex software and product development, using iterative and incremental practices. Scrum can increases productivity and reduce time to complete an app relative to classic “waterfall” processes.
Scrum sprints enable companies to adapt to a rapidly-changing world, while meeting an ever evolving business world. Agile Scrum benefits can be summarized:
- More advance/up-to-date features are developed and delivered more quickly with shorter time cycles
- Adjust to changes (and expect the changes) result in better feature and shorter time to market
- Provide better estimates while spending less time creating them
- Better control of the project schedule and state
- Scrum benefits Team members by reducing non-productive work, like writing specs or docs that no one uses or reads, and giving them more time to do the work they enjoy
- Faster results can advoid the pitfall of supporting a project that was doomed to fail from the beginning
Hybrid Scrum Environment
Depending on your company's culture and age, more than likely you will be applying methods and frameworks from both traditional Waterfall and newer Scrum projects which we call a Hybrid Scrum Environment. Scrum is a simple framework to learn and is difficult to apply. This is due to the traditional way of managing a projects with a Waterfall in which Agiel Scrum flips Waterfall on its head thus making it difficult for Waterfall projects to break old habits. For instance, parts of the Scrum Framework require that teams of developers manage themselves. This goes against traditional project management. Another example is a software development project without a detailed plan or utilizing a “Scrum master”, who is a servant leader who is the master of no one, instead of a project manager.
