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Agile Development Process Models

Scrum
DSDM
Crystal
 SCRUM
SCRUM is an agile development method.
concentrates specifically on how to
manage tasks within a team-based
development environment.
Scrum believes in empowering the
development team and advocates working
in small teams (say- 7 to 9 members).
requirements, analysis, design, evolution,
and delivery.
Scrum- Work task within a process pattern
called as sprint
 Scrum is effective for projects with tight timelines,
changing requirements, and business criticality.
Backloga prioritized list of project requirements or
features that provide business value for the
customer. Items can be added to the backlog at any
time (this is how changes are introduced). The
product manager assesses the backlog and updates
priorities as required.
Sprintsconsist of work units that are required to
achieve a requirement defined in the backlog that
must be fit into a predefined time-box14 (typically
30 days).
 Changes (e.g., backlog work items) are not introduced
during the sprint. Hence, the sprint allows team
members to work in a short-term, but stable
environment.
Scrum meetingsare short (typically 15 minutes)
meetings held daily by the Scrum team. Three key
questions are asked and answered by all team
members [Noy02]:

What did you do since the last team meeting?

What obstacles are you encountering?
What do you plan to accomplish by the next team meeting?
 Three Roles and
Responsibilities
Scrum Master
Master is responsible for setting up the team,
sprint meeting and removes obstacles to
progress
Product owner
The Product Owner creates product backlog,
prioritizes the backlog and is responsible for the
delivery of the functionality at each iteration
Scrum Team
Team manages its own work and organizes the
work to complete the sprint or cycle
 Process flow of Scrum Methodologies:

Process flow of scrum testing is as follows:

Each iteration of a scrum is known as Sprint
Product backlog is a list where all details are
entered to get end product
During each Sprint, top items of Product backlog
are selected and turned into Sprint backlog
Team works on the defined sprint backlog
Team checks for the daily work
At the end of the sprint, team delivers product
functionality
 Dynamic System Development
Method (DSDM)
The Dynamic Systems Development Method
(DSDM) is a Rapid Application Development
(RAD) approach to software development
provides an agile project delivery framework.
The important aspect of DSDM is that the
users are required to be involved actively,
and the teams are given the power to make
decisions.
Frequent delivery of product becomes the
active focus with DSDM.
 The DSDM project consists of 7
phases
Pre-project
Feasibility Study
Business Study
Functional Model Iteration
Design and build Iteration
Implementation
Post-project
 DSDM
Feasibility study basic business requirement and constraints.
Business study-functional and information requirements
Functional Model Iteration-produces a set of incremental
prototypes that demonstrate functionality for the customer
Design and build iteration model iterationrevisits prototypes
built during functional model iteration to ensure that each has
been engineered in a manner that will enable it to provide
operational business value for end users.
Implementation-places the latest software increment (an
operationalized prototype) into the operational environment. It
should be noted that
(1) the increment may not be 100 percent complete or
(2) changes may be requested as the increment is put into place. In either
case, DSDM development work continues by returning to the functional
model iteration activity.
 Crystal
Crystal Methodologies
Crystal Methodology is based on three concepts
Chartering: Various activities involved in this phase are
creating a development team,
performing a preliminary feasibility analysis,
developing an initial plan and
fine-tuning the development methodology
Cyclic delivery: The main development phase consists of two
or more delivery cycles, during which the
Team updates and refines the release plan
Implements a subset of the requirements through one or more
program test integrate iterations
Integrated product is delivered to real users
Review of the project plan and adopted development methodology
Wrap Up: The activities performed in this phase are
deployment into the user environment, post- deployment
reviews and reflections are performed.
 Feature Driven Development (FDD)
This method is focused around "designing & building" features. Unlike
other agile methods, FDD describes very specific and short phases of
work that has to be accomplished separately per feature. It includes
domain walkthrough,
design inspection,
promote to build,
code inspection and
design.

FDD develops product keeping following things in the target

Domain object Modeling
Development by feature
Component/ Class Ownership
Feature Teams
Inspections
Configuration Management
Regular Builds
Visibility of progress and results