Scaling Software Agility: Best Practices for Large Enterprises

Chapter 6Lean Software, DSDM, and FDD

While XP and Scrum often typify agility, and RUP typifies iterative and incremental development, a variety of other agile methods, including Lean Software Development, Feature-Driven Development, and the Dynamic Systems Development Method, have also been developed, each contributing to our understanding of agility at scale.

In previous chapters, we’ve characterized the essence of two widely adopted agile methods, XP and Scrum, and one widely adopted iterative and incremental method, RUP. However, over the course of the last decade, a number of other lighter-weight methods have also been developed and have seen varying degrees of application and use. As with the methods described so far, each of these additional ...