Chapter 20. Agile projects

Agile development refers to a set of software development methods that encourage continuous collaboration among stakeholders and rapid and frequent delivery of small increments of useful functionality. There are many different types of agile methods; some of the most popular are Scrum, Extreme Programming, Lean Software Development, Feature-Driven Development, and Kanban. The term “agile development” has gained popularity since the publication of the “Manifesto for Agile Software Development” ([ref015]). Agile methods are based on iterative and incremental approaches to software development, which have been around for many years (for example, see [ref020]; [ref083]; and [ref149]).

The agile development approaches have ...

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