Agile Methodology

Agile development offers options to manage the direction throughout the development process. This is done through regular cadences of work, known as Sprints or iterations, at the end of which the team must present a potentially shippable product increment. By targeting on the repetition of abbreviated work cycles as well as the functional product they yield, agile methodology is defined as the “iterative” and the “incremental”. In waterfall, the developers only have a single chance to get each aspect of the project right. On an agile paradigm, every aspect of development – design, system requirements, etc. – is continually revisited. When a team halts and re-examines the direction of a project every other week, there’s an opportunity to steer it in a new direction. This is the agility of Agile.