Hands-On Software Engineering with Python

Kanban and the phases of the SDLC model

Many Agile processes, especially those that use stories as a basic unit of effort or work, have a lot of similarities. Since most story-related items have been described in some detail in discussing Scrum, any later methodologies that use stories will only note variations on the themes:

• Before development starts: Requirement analysis and definition, and system architecture and design, work in much the same way as they do in Scrum, and for many of the same reasons. The primary difference is that there is a less formal structure expected in Kanban to accomplish the attachment of requirements-and-architecture details to stories. It generally happens when there's time and/or a perceived need, such as the ...