It’s a thorough, structured methodology and one that’s been around for a long time, because it works. Some of the industries that regularly use the waterfall model include construction, IT and software development. As an example, the waterfall software development life cycle, or waterfall SDLC...
The beginning of that understanding lies in Waterfall’s mostly untold origin story. The Murky Origins of Waterfall Methodology Most people in organizational management associate the term “Waterfall” with the chart below, which comes from “Managing the Development of Large Software Systems,” an ...
From Agile to Scrum to Waterfall to Kanban, there are a variety of different project management frameworks. Some, like Scrum, follow a more rigid, structured methodology. Others, like Kanban, are easier to introduce and implement on top of existing processes. They all have pros and cons, so ...
The waterfall methodology (also known as the software development life cycle model (SDLC)) is a more traditional methodology where software development cascades from one phase to the next like a waterfall. The phases do not overlap and have specific entrance and exit criteria for moving from...
Let us say that we have built our software product using a waterfall methodology. Somewhere down the road in the process, we find that we need to change what we are planning. Either we have made a mistake or, more positively, we have learned more about what we are building and can impr...
To understand the difference between the Agile methodology and its predecessor, consider the example of European company Ericsson.BackgroundEricsson is a Swedish multinational company with a core focus on networking and telecommunications. The company, which was founded in 1876, sells software and ...
Every sprint traditionally consists of such phases as Discovery, design, development, testing… and so on in a circle (in a cycle). Agile History The Agile concept appeared more or less recently in the USA (Utah). The methodology was created by a group of next to 20 IT experts. They th...
The Lean Startup methodology letsbusiness owners learn where to go with the product or service based on real user data and feedback. In the combined approach, you can think of this phase as the time where you sift out the working elements of your product and abandon features that don’t ...
Waterfall. Agile. Kanban. Scrum. What do these words have to do withproject management, what are the differences, and how can you pick the methodology that’s right for your team? If you’re unsure about the meaning of any of these terms, we’ve got you covered. In this article, we...
Scrum is one example of such agile methodology and is described in the following sections. It was introduced in the late 1990s [15,16] and has become “the overwhelming [agile] favorite.” [17] User requirements are maintained as user stories in a product backlog in Scrum [18]. They ...