Appendix A

Agile Methodologies

The intent of this appendix is to provide you with an overview of some of the more common agile methodologies and frameworks. They are listed in no particular order. We encourage you to read more about these individual approaches to agile software development and have included some book titles or web links to help. For those who would like a single book recommendation, you may find Jim Highsmith’s Agile Software Development Ecosystems the best detailed look at many of the approaches we outline in the following sections.

Scrum

“Scrum is an iterative, incremental process for developing any product or managing any work. It produces a potentially shippable set of functionality at the end of every iteration.”1 Scrum ...

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