Agile Software Web Development-Offshore

Benefits Overview

In today’s fast paced technology driven environment, software & IT industry has seen

tremendous growth and technology advancement in past few years. Companies & Businesses of

different industries across the levels are investing more on software and web applications to get

the whole operation streamlined. To cater these requirements, software and development

companies are implementing those software development methodologies, which are more cost

effective, and provide a collaborative working environment during project development. Agile

software development is one such methodology that is being widely used by offshore software

development companies in order to deliver projects in more effective manner.

Agile software development methodology was introduced in the year 2001 under the Agile

Manifesto. During any project development the business requirements & specifications,

assigned tasks, and priorities could be changed. Considering this, agile methods are considered

very useful and practical in this scenario. It consists of software development methodologies

which are based on iterative and incremental method of development. The whole development is

done with effective collaboration between small cross-functional and self-organized teams and

client. It provides a greater flexibility where whole project could be split into different small

phases or stages with specific time assigned respectively. This helps to complete the whole

project in more efficient manner with given time.

Agile development is driven by certain set of beliefs and principles. According to these beliefs,

communication and interaction at individual level needs to be done in prioritized manner along

with agile development tools and processes. It insists that, the human interaction and

communication plays pivot role during project development. It gives the primary importance to a

working software in comparison to documentation. Though, detailed documentation is required

but, it is much better to present the development process through working software during client

interaction. It is very important to have effective collaboration and communication with client on

frequent basis during each phase of project development. It insists, there should be a proper

mechanism for responding to changes requested during the development process. However,

planning is an essential step but, there might be cases where some changes are requested from

client due to some factors such as market condition. Therefore, effective change management

system plays very crucial part in agile development.

Agile methods does not have long-term planning, instead it focused on breaking the tasks with

small increments. In Iteration process, activities are divided into short time frames from one to

four weeks. Every time frame or iteration consists of a small team that works on all components

of software development cycle named-requirement analysis, design, coding, unit testing and

acceptance testing. Further, it helps in minimizing the risk involved if, there is any changes are

suggested during the development. It is expected to have a product release at the end of each

iteration with least bugs.

Generally, teams are small, self-organized and cross-functional with less influence of any

corporate hierarchy. The team size could be of 5 to 9 members. Each team member considered

responsible for tasks assigned in iteration. Most of the time, the communication is face-to-face in

case, the team is in same place. There is close co-operation between developers and business

end. One person is appointed by stakeholder who can interact with development team during the

iteration process. As a measure of success, a working software is considered the best way to

show the development process.

There are various types of agile methods in practice, such as – agile modeling, agile modified

process, essential unified process, dynamic systems development method, extreme programming,

open unified process, feature driven development, scrum and velocity tracking.

Sustainability, effective change management, customer satisfaction by delivering the project with

effective collaboration at both client and development end are few prime objectives of agile

development. Effective resource allocation and optimal resource utilization makes it more cost

effective methods of software development. Because of above mentioned benefits, Offshore

agile software web development has become one of the most preferred options among web

development companies across the globe.

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