What are different Agile methods ?

Agile methods

There are many specific Agile development methods.

Most promote development, teamwork, collaboration, and process adaptability throughout the life-cycle of the project.

Iterations are short time frames ("timeboxes") that typically last from 1 to 4 weeks.

Each iteration involves a team working through a full software development cycle including planning, requirements analysis, design,coding, unit testing, and acceptance testing when a working product is demonstrated to stakeholders.

This helps minimize overall risk, and lets the project adapt to changes quickly. Stakeholders produce documentation as required. Multiple iterations may be required to release a product or new features.

Agile methods emphasize face-to-face communication over written documents when the team is all in the same location.

When a team works in different locations, they maintain daily contact through videoconferencing, voice,e-mail, etc. Most agile teams work in a single open office (called a bullpen), which facilitates such communication.

Team size is typically small (5-9 people) to help make team communication and team collaboration easier. Most agile implementations use a routine and formal daily face-to-face communication among team members.

Some of the well-known Agile software development methods :

• Agile Modeling (AM)
• Agile Unified Process (AUP)
• Dynamic Systems Development Method (DSDM)
• Essential Unified Process (EssUP)
• Extreme Programming (XP)
• FeatureDriven Development (FDD)
• Open Unified Process (OpenUP)
• Scrum