Chapter 2, Problem 7E

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Agile projects are more successful than other projects:

• Agile is very much effective for productivity since, it helps to keep everyone focused on one task at a time.
• If teams try to do too many things at a time, then it will ultimately fail from being disorganized or overwhelmed.
• Agile is advantageous to software development since, it focus on smaller scope than a waterfall development method...

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Agile principles:

The five agile principles which can be applied on all types of projects are as follows.

• Work in smaller chunks:
  • Instead of working with minimal large requirements or tasks, break them into smaller and easily managed chunks h can be completed in shorter time intervals.
• Increase collaboration and communication between programmers and testers:
  • For getting feedback about the features to developers as quickly as possible, one of the best ways is to test in parallel to development.
  • Another way for getting feedback is from testers working with developers plan and this will help to catch more bugs quickly.
• Have more automated tests and run them more often:
  • For each new feature or major bug fix, instruct developers to create unit and integration tests...

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References:

The three references include:

• Agile Principles You Can Apply to Every Type of Project &#...

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Agile software development:

• It is an approach to software development where requirements and solutions evolve through a collaborative effort of self-organizing and cross-functional teams and their customers or end users.
• Agile software development community focuses on collaboration and the self-organizing team...