Does anyone have any good techniques or examples on how to promote the benefits of Agile development practices in a waterfall driven corporate environment? We recently switched to feature based development, using trunk & branch code management, we have a one project running well with scrum, but its hard to get this approach adopted by t...
My work place is very archaic when it comes to software development. Essentially all projects are forced to use a waterfall approach requiring immense paperwork. I've always been a fan of agile development and recently was approach by my manager asking for me to help him put together a proposal to some of the managers/directors to try ...
In traditional Waterfall, requirements were gathered - typically in a MS-Word document - following an esoteric template. In a "strict" waterfall model, this document is frozen after the requirement phase and a Change Control / Change Management process is responsible for introducing controlled changes. (**) [Typically, the document is t...
If so, how do you deal with things that just don't "feel" right such as: not writing unit tests not having a continuous build not refactoring not having a team coding standard not pair programming not doing iterations no daily standups no retrospectives Now, some agile organizations do leave out some of these practices, but most succ...
If you had to choose one advantage that Scrum gives over a waterfall process, what would it be? ...
I read what-payment-structure-do-you-use-for-small-projects and I wonder how you guys are dealing with bug vs. feature. I once had a situation where a client wanted static reports. Then near the end of the project after most of the work on reports had been done he said he had always wanted dynamic reports. That change was not easy, beca...
This is the waterfall view I'm seeing on my blog: http://www.webpagetest.org/result/090330_1A67/1/details/ It seems to me that 4 seconds for the time to first byte would indicate a server issue. Any thoughts on what is going on or what I can do to fix this initial delay? ...
The Mythical Man-Month is now classic, but the "Surgical Team" methodology is still interesting. What methodology most closely resembles it or has the same essence? To summarize the Surgical Team analogy: A surgeon understands the problem/business domain and is the expert. They are the authority when there are questions or conflict ...
It is not easy for traditional large software product organizations working in distributed off-shore environments engaged in Product Development to follow the spirit of Agile in Scrum for the following reasons: Their product development is not iterative. The product engineering teams after several rounds of iterative systems engineeri...
I'm in a big organization that likes waterfall processes and need to help discourage its use at least on my project. It would be helpful if the name was more ugly, jarring and not as pretty as a waterfall, a forest or sunset. Any suggestions? ...
I know that for me I first got started following the waterfall method of project management and along with that I went with the predictive approach to software design. In this I mean we had huge packets of documentation, UML, database schemas, data dictionaries, workflows, activity diagrams, etc. Having worked in software for over 10...
Hi, I need help in creating a waterfall display of my image data stored in a buffer. The stream of image data needs to be displayed scrolling down the screen as its being acquired from the camera. I am using visual studio c++ windows forms. Can someone please help me to figure out how to achieve this display? Thanks in advance ...
I've worked on Death March projects in the Java world - projects that are destined to fail from the beginning because of some combination of poor management and unwieldy, complex technology, usually spanning multiple systems and often tied to a waterfall approach. Rails and Django are touted as Agile development technologies, which mean...
I was wondering if someone can share their exeprience or point to a study on cost savings realized by adopting Agile (using Srum and XP), over traditional Waterfall. ...
I'm trying to find information on projects which used the Waterfall software development model, and benefited from it. Unfortunately, I can't seem to find anything. Does anyone know of anywhere I can read up on any piece of software, from any year, which used this method successfully? ...
In various places I've seen the claim that by designing a system up-front, you can significantly reduce development time. I.e. by spending an hour designing you can save a week coding. My problem is that I have never seen a situation where I found this to be true. So I want to know of any examples out there that people have where this wo...
Can you please give a methodology that stands to alleviate the disadvantages of waterfall model? ...
My team has grown fairly quickly from 1 to 5 over the last year or so and are very interested in changing our development style from Waterfall to a more iterative approach like Scrum. We work for a University and specialize in CRUD web apps for internal customers who are always changing requirements along the way. So, my question is...H...
Hi, I am working in an Agile environment and things have gone to the state where the client feels that they would prefer Waterfall due to the failures (thats what they think) of the current Agile scenario. The reason that made them think like this would be the immense amount of design level changes that happened during the end stages of...
Does using Microsoft Project force you into a waterfall model? Could anyone point me to examples of successful iterative (agile for example) projects that successfully use(d) MS Project as a supporting tool? ...