...registration 3. Registration to verification of subjects and courses 4. Validate whether the student has completed prescribed courses 5. Approval from the respective course coordinators 6. Final billing made on the student to make payment of his fees. In this entire process one has to understand what the needs of the student are and then we need to bill him as per the requirements of the course which he is bound to enroll. There should not be blind system of billing everybody without any purpose. Hence in this case the validation of subjects and needs has to be clarified at all instances. Appendix B 1. When should you use an Agile method, and when should you use an engineering-based method for developing a system? Support your answer Agile methods are adaptive in nature. Their nature is to welcome and adapt changes. And also the agile processes focus on people rather than process so in a case where a system to be developed is about to change rapidly and also depended upon the persons; the agile methods must be a good approach. Also the documentation part is too less in this case. Engineering processes are predictive in nature and they do not support changes and also they are process focused. So when there is a system that will remain stable for a long period of time engineering approach is good...
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...Agile Methodology Brian Crites System Analysis and Design July 16, 2012 Summer Term B 2012 Professor David A. Ostrowski Agile Methodology is an approach to project management that for the most part is used with software development. Agile Methodology is a very important part of software development. Throughout this paper I intend to discuss what the movement toward agility means for the future of systems analysis and design (Hoffer, George, & Valacich, 2011). In the year of 2001 many proponents met in Utah and came to discuss and agree on underlying principles (Hoffer, George, & Valacich, 2011). Through this discussion they came up with the “The Agile Manifesto” (Hoffer, George, & Valacich, 2011). There is very important information listed in the Agile Manifesto as you can see from the information I have provided, according to my textbook, below. “The Manifesto for Agile Software Development Seventeen anarchists agree: We are uncovering better ways of developing software by doing it and helping others do it. Through this work we have come to value: • Individuals and interactions over processes and tools. • Working software over comprehensive documentation. • Customer collaboration over contract negotiation. • Responding to change over following a plan. That is, while we value the items on the right, we value the items on the left more. We follow the following principles: • Our highest priority is to satisfy the customer through early and...
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...for Succeeding with Agile “Understanding the mechanics of an agile process is just not enough. Mike Cohn has compiled a superb and comprehensive collection of advice that will help individuals and teams with the intricate task of adopting and adapting agile processes to fit their specific challenges. This book will become the definitive handbook for agile teams.” —Colin Bird, Global Head of Agile, EMC Consulting “Mike Cohn’s experience working with so many different organizations in the adoption of agile methods shines through with practical approaches and valuable insights. If you really want agile methods to stick, this is the book to read.” —Jeff Honious,Vice President, Innovation, Reed Elsevier “Mike Cohn has done it again. Succeeding with Agile is based on his experience, and all of our experience, with agile to date. He covers from the earliest days of the project up to maturity and offers advice for the individual, the team, and the enterprise. No matter where you are in the agile cycle, this book has something for you!” —Ron Jeffries, www.XProgramming.com “If you want to start or take the next step in agile software development, this book is for you. It discusses issues, great solutions, and helpful guidelines when scaling up in agile projects. We used the guidelines from this book extensively when we introduced agile in a large, FDA-regulated department.” —Christ Vriens, Department Head of MiPlaza, part of Philips Research “If making the move to agile has always baffled...
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...Running head: GROUP SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT Team Programming Environments Information Technology for Teams Course Team Programming Environments Programming teams are achieving advances in deployment of more modular software products through the use of adaptive techniques in software development. Companies implementing large scale enterprise planning and control systems, product data management tools and complex back office systems for global service and support are finding these techniques to be more cost effective, adaptable and lean improving user requests for changing software functionality, processes and improved deployment strategies (Applegate, Austin, & McFarlan, 2002). This paper will compare and contrast three team oriented programming environments including Rational, Unified Modeling and Extreme Programming and will describe the impact of these programming environments on group software development. Literature Review of Software Trends The traditional methods of systems planning and investment decision making in the last century have given pause to leaders who witnessed costs in design, implementation and deployment of software skyrocket, created armies of support teams to operate and manage the software products and forced many firms into bankruptcy. Companies who have successfully implemented enterprise systems are now seeking more adaptive infrastructure deployments, software end-user functional value, and more adaptable...
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...Replacing PeopleSoft Using the Agile Methodology Development January 8th, 2015 IT Project Manager Group F’s College of Technology Mid-West, USA 12345 College President Group F’s College of Technology Mid-West, USA 12345 Dear College President: Per the goals of the IT department our project: Replacing PeopleSoft using the agile methodology, is designed to replace the current software at our college. By doing this we will create a more time and cost efficient software program at our college that will be used throughout all our campuses. The new software will be maintained and updated internally which in turn will result in a reduction of expenses. We are hoping to start and complete this process within a year. Throughout the year our internal staff will gain the knowledge necessary to maintain and update the new software. They will also use the agile methodology to ensure that this process is done successfully. We also understand that this will cause complications at times with our means of communication between stakeholders and employees. Liaisons will be in place to communicate updates and other information to our stakeholders and employees in the case of complications. We are requesting your approval to start this project by the end of January 2015 once you have reviewed this project report. You will see in our report that requests for finances will be minimal as we own all of the hardware. We plan on using most of the existing hardware, if not all of it...
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...Malaysian Airlines TIME TO TRAVEL……. Preliminary Consultancy Report (Update) Of Developing An Agile/Adaptive Organization by Concentrating HR Capabilities Perspective: Malaysian Airlines Prepared by Anupam Mazumdar Vidya Md. Mohsin Zaki Derrick Bungo Malaysian Airlines TIME TO TRAVEL……. ADOPTED APPROACH & METHOD JUSTIFICATION THIS REPORT IS BASED ON MALAYSIAN AIRLINES IN WHICH INDUCTIVE CONTEXT WILL BE DEVELOPED BY USING DIFFERENT SOURCES SUCH AS JOURNALS, ARTICLES, COMPANY DATABASE, COMPANY & CASE STUDY WEBSITE, COMPANIES ANNUAL AND LATEST REPORT REPORTS OF OTHER HOMOGENEOUS ORGANIZATIONS (RITCHE ET AL., 2014) CONCLUSION AND RECOMMENDATION (HOW HR CAN ADOPT AGILE/ADAPTIVE APPROACH) WILL BE DERIVED FROM MALAYSIAN AIRLINES DATA, INFORMATION, FINANCIAL STATEMENT, PRESS RELESE, FINDINGS AND ANALYSIS OF PAST AND PRESENT STATUS OF MALAYSIAN AIRLINES (SILVERMAN, 2014) Malaysian Airlines TIME TO TRAVEL……. THEORIES THE FOLLOWING THEORIES WILL BE USED TO IDENTIFY THE KEY ISSUES OF MA THEORIES ü ü ü ü ü ü ü ü ü PESTEL ANALYSIS SWOT ANALYSIS PORTER’S 5 FORCES CULTURAL AND LEADERSHIP STYLE OF MA (HARD & SOFT) KNOWLEDGE BASED VIEW & RESOURCE BASED VIEW FORCE FIELD ANALYSIS BLUE OCEAN STRATEGIES STRATEGY GROUP MAP SEVEN “S” MODEL KEY ISSUES ü COMPANY PROFILE OF THE MALAYSIAN AIRLINES ü CURRENT STATUS OF THE THE MALAYSIAN AIRLINES ü CURRENT STRATEGIC POSITION OF MALAYSIAN AIRLINES ü CURRENT HR PRACTICES IN MA ü STAKEHOLDER ANALYSIS...
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...Inspiration from: When I was young, I never go out door and play with my fellow kids. The reason was I was scared that I would get hurt while I play. Then, one day my brother took me to the nearby ground. I was watching the boys playing Cricket. All of sudden I heard a loud noise, it is because the whole ground was cheering for a boy who reached the strikers end to take the strike. And realized the reason for the cheer that boy had no legs. The very first ball he faced, he sent the ball to the boundary. I was shocked and just observed him closely. He can’t run as like others and comes to ground on his wheel chair but still manages to play cricket. I found from others that he met with an accident couples of years back and lost his both legs be. As a grown up person now, I could understand “How did he managed to play cricket without legs”. The change he understood, the change he adapted, the technique he developed, the change he made to himself…. It is true and evident that you can’t live every day in the same style. Change is Eternal. If the person in the above story had thought, it is going to hurt him if he tries to play cricket after the accident, then he will be just called as Handicap. But now, he accepted and fought the battle and won. His name is 'Aghoram'. It has truly inspired me in many ways; in fact I have started playing outdoor games. Being in IT industry for these many years, I have realised most of the IT industries were stick to the traditional...
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...Study on Agile software development methodologies A B M Moniruzzaman abm.mzkhan@gmail.com Dr Syed Akhter Hossain aktarhossain@daffodilvarsity.edu.bd Abstract Today‘s business environment is very much dynamic, and organisations are constantly changing their software requirements to adjust with new environment. They also demand for fast delivery of software products as well as for accepting changing requirements. In this aspect, traditional plan-driven developments fail to meet up these requirements. Though traditional software development methodologies, such as life cycle-based structured and object oriented approaches, continue to dominate the systems development few decades and much research has done in traditional methodologies, Agile software development brings its own set of novel challenges that must be addressed to satisfy the customer through early and continuous delivery of the valuable software. It‘s a set of software development methods based on iterative and incremental development process, where requirements and development evolve through collaboration between self-organizing, cross-functional teams that allows rapid delivery of high quality software to meet customer needs and also accommodate changes in the requirements. In this paper, we significantly indentify and describe the major factors, that Agile development approach improves software development process to meet the rapid changing business environments. We also provide a brief comparison of agile development...
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...serena.com An IntroductIon to AgIle SoftwAre development June 2007 tAble of contentS Executive summary............................................................................................................................................................ 3 Agile vs. waterfall: practical differences in methodology .............................................................. 4 Two agile software development methodologies ................................................................................. 6 Xp ......................................................................................................................................................................................................... 6 The XP development process ....................................................................................................................................................... 6 XP rules and concepts ......................................................................................................................................................................7 Scrum ................................................................................................................................................................................................. 8 Scrum management........................................................................................................................................................................ 8 Scrum...
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...Agile Project Management What are the Benefits and Challenges? What is Agile Project Management? ○ Agile Project Management is family of incremental, iterative development methods for Completing Projects What is Agile Project Management? ○ Agile project management is related to a rolling wave and scheduling product Methodology ( Larson, 594) ○ This type of project management allows more things to get completed using the same people and resources. What is Agile Project Management? ○ This type of project management allows more things to get completed using the same people and resources. Agile Project Management When the project team makes the change from traditional project management to agile project management there will be some adaption of the process needed by the team. The team will need to change their entire thought process. https://www.youtube.com/watch? v=ioYMSyCCVgc ○ The use of communication in agile project management ○ Communication is the Key process in Agile Project management Communication ○ Customer Involvement helps to make sure that the customer is satisfied with the project on each step of the process. ○ Stakeholders and Business owners may initiate a project but may not actually do any of the work Iterations ○ Agile project management users Iterations ○ Iterations are short time frames that typically last from one to four weeks in length Variety of...
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...February 2013 IMPROVING THE MANAGEMENT OF COST AND SCOPE IN SOFTWARE PROJECTS USING AGILE PRACTICES Mariana de Azevedo Santos1, Paulo Henrique de Souza Bermejo2, Marcelo Silva de Oliveira3, Adriano Olímpio Tonelli2, Enio Júnior Seidel4 1 2 3 Mitah Technologies, Lavras, Minas Gerais, Brazil mariana@bsi.ufla.br Department of Computer Science – Universidade Federal de Lavras (UFLA) bermejo@dcc.ufla.br, tonelli@dcc.ufla.br marcelo.oliveira@dex.ufla.br 4 Department of Mathematical Sciences – Universidade Federal de Lavras (UFLA) Universidade Federal do Pampa (UNIPAMPA) ejrseidel@hotmail.com ABSTRACT While organizations want to develop software products with reduced cost and flexible scope, stories about the applicability of agile practices to improve project development and performance in the software industry are scarce and focused on specific methodologies such as Scrum and XP. Given these facts, this paper aims to investigate, through practitioners' perceptions of value, which agile practices are being used to improve two performance criteria for software projects—cost and scope. Using a multivariate statistical technique known as Exploratory Factor Analysis (EFA), the results suggest that the use of agile practices can be represented in factors which describe different applications in software development process to improve cost and scope. Also, we conclude that some agile practices should be used together in order to get better efficiency on cost and scope...
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...The Unified Process, a Project Management Approach The Unified Process, a Project Management Approach The Agile Unified Process is an easily understandable form of the Rational Unified Process (RUP).It defines a simple way of improving business applications (Methodsandtools.com, 2014). Organization’s changes to software development can be accepted at late stages of progression. The aim of any firm is to grow in future a trend observable in most businesses. It is right for the management to take into consideration the key indicators of a progressive service delivery. These will help in improving their structures through employing the best operational procedures. Improvements can be done on human skills, techniques used, and automations. The agile software delivery aims at developing mechanisms that will ensure a proper economy of the resources. It is achieved by targeting a lower value of risk and getting optimal utilization of the assets. This attributes to a higher chance of a successful business due to reduced negative impacts on the procedures. The management of modules such as projects and programs, should be performed in accordance with the business goal and the available resources. Each module should be designed to efficiently utilize the program budgets, timelines, resources, and uncertainties. The firm has then the capability to figure out how each portfolio will achieve the set goals. Then allocations of finances and human labor to different modules can be governed...
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...| Agile Testing Methodology | | | | Bhavik Bharat Mehta ) | | Table of Contents Traditional Software Development Process 3 Traditional Testing 4 Introduction to Agile Process 5 Agile v/s Traditional Process 6 Software Testing Process in Agile 7 Key features of Agile Tester 8 Limitation of Traditional QA in Agile Environment 9 Software Testing – An Agile Methodology 10 Change Mindset 10 Change Focus 10 Elimination of Bottleneck 10 Latency Reduction 11 Less Documentation 11 Test Driven Approach 12 Value working software over comprehensive documentation 13 Importance of team than processes 13 Challenges in Agile Testing 14 Speed and Volume change 14 Inconsistent/ Inadequate Unit Testing 14 Decision fatigue 15 Testing in the nth iteration 15 Testing within same iteration as coding 16 Poor changing and Missing Test Oracles 16 Various Process Agile Testing 17 Exploratory Testing 17 Scrum Testing 17 Lean and Kanban Testing 18 Extreme Programming 19 Agile Testing in Large Scale Project 21 References 22 Traditional Software Development Process Traditional software methodologies are based on a sequential series of steps that has to be defined and documented in detail; this process does not support changes of requirements also the complete system has to be known at start. Traditional methodologies employ a requirement-design-build format and are considered to be the traditional way to develop software...
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...literature reviews the various literatures that underline the study of training and development in firms both in the public and private sector and its effect on performance. In this chapter, I discussed the literature on agile project management and its benefits and challenges by considering definitions and theories of agile project management, principles and empirical literature. 2.1 Project management and agile project management defined 2.1.1 Project management According to Kerzner (2009, 10th ed.) project management is the planning, directing and controlling of company resources for a relatively short-term objective that has been established to complete specific goals and objectives. Project management also utilizes the system approach to management by having functional personnel (vertical hierarchy) assigned to a specific project (horizontal hierarchy). Project Management Institute (2004, pp.5-377) also defined project management as the application of knowledge, skills, tools and techniques to project activities to meet or exceed stakeholder objectives and expectations from a particular project” and according to ISO 10006 project management is the planning, organizing, monitoring and controlling all aspects and activities of the project in a continuous process to achieve its planned objectives”. Basically, project management deals with coordinating resources and managing people and change. Managing a project includes: Identifying, requirements, establishing clear and...
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...is a support function; systems don’t exist for their own sake. The nature of an IS is that it is a function supporting people taking purposeful action. A good ISD process needs to examine the ways in which people in the organisation perceive their world. The key point is that meanings and purposes is essential in order to arrive at the right system which will support the data processing. (Checkland & Holwell, 1998:110-113) Figure: SCRUM Agile Process for Globally Distributed Teams The history of systems development Systems development was seen in the earlier years as a predominantly practical, technical process that led to a problem-solving philosophy accepted by computer professionals as a purely technical process aimed at solving problems which are defined in mostly technical terms. This mechanistic bias in the systems development process can be the leading factor in information systems failure. (Maguire, 2000:232-236) Agile Development The philosophy of agile development The philosophy of agile is defined in a Manifesto. In this Manifesto the values are outlined that should be in agile development. These values state that individuals and their interactions must be more important than processes and tools. How the SDLC and Agile methods compare In outline the distinction between the SDLC and Agile methods can be formulated as follows: The SDLC The SDLC has a technical bias. It...
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