Emerging Industry Overview: Agile Software
Industry Snapshot
Agile software is an umbrella term for multiple innovative methods by which software developers organize and implement projects and communicate with their clients. Agile software development is an adaptive or incremental approach to software design and development that challenges more traditional, plan-based or engineering-based software practices. As the authors of "Agile Modeling, Agile Software Development, and Extreme Programming: The State of Research" explain, its concepts are intended "to strip away as much of the heaviness, commonly associated with the traditional software-development methodologies, as possible to promote quick response to changing environments, changes in...