Introduction to Scrum and Kanban

This section briefs us about agile methodology.

Starting in the late 1990s, software and generic engineering process has seen an explosion of lighter weight and ever more adaptive models. These models assume that with the right tools and practices it was simply more cost effective to develop the product quickly, have it evaluated by customers in actual use, be wrong (if necessary), and quickly rework it than it was to try to anticipate and document all the requirements up front.

The movement to these agile methods has been the most significant change to affect the software enterprise since the advent of the waterfall model in the 1970s.

These methods have proven themselves to deliver outstanding benefits on the four measures:

Notable agile methods include Extreme Programming (XP), Scrum and Kanban, all of which are discussed in details over the web.