Agile Methodology and Movement

Agile methodology (or movement) is a latest management approach that is proposed as an alternative to traditional development and project management methods. Instead of a waterfall approach, where the delivery lifecycle progresses from one phase to the next, the agile method advocates an iterative and incremental development approach where a large product is divided into smaller components with agile teams focused on working on each component iteratively. This method, therefore, also allows for change to be introduced in the middle of the development lifecycle without causing any major rework since the teams only work in smaller iterations and produce work that is aligned to the customer business priorities. Agile methods include a set of practices that tend to compensate for the practices used in traditional methodologies. For example, peer reviews and working in teams is encouraged rather than performing code reviews, frequent testing during the short development cycles compensates for the long requirements and longer development times, and so on.

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