Hands-On Software Engineering with Python

Agile (in general)

By the early 1990s, a sea change was under way in how development processes were viewed. The Waterfall process, despite widespread adoption, even in government contractor policies in the US, started to show more and more of the flaws inherent to its application to large and complex systems. Other, non-Waterfall methodologies that were in use were also starting to show signs of wear from being too heavy, too prone to counter-productive micro-management, and a variety of other complaints and concerns.

As a result, a lot of thought around development processes started focusing on lightweight, iterative, and less management-intensive approaches, that eventually coalesced around the Agile Manifesto and the twelve principles ...