AGILE

Agile Model / Agile Methodology / Agile Process

It is an Iterative and Incremental Approach.

Agile is an Iterative and Incremental Process

Agile Principles

Customer no need to wait for long time.
We develop, test and release piece of software to the customer with few number of features.
We can accept/accommodate requirement changes.

There will be good communication between customer, Business Analyst, Developer and Testers.

Agile Principles

Agile Advantages

Requirement changes are allowed in any stage of development, or we can accommodate requirement changes in the middle of development.
Release will be very fast ( weekly )
Customer no need to wait for long time.
Good communication between team.
It is very easy model to adopt.

Agile Disadvantages

Less focus on design and documentation since we deliver software very faster

SCRUM & TEAM

Scrum is a framework through which we build software product by following Agile Principles.

Scrum includes group of people called as Scrum team. Normally contains 5-9 members.

Product Owner
Scrum Master
Dev Team
QA Team

Product Owner

Define the features of the product.
Prioritize features according to market value.
Adjust features and priority every iteration, as needed.
Accept or reject work results.

Scrum Master

The main role is facilitating and driving the agile process.

Developers

Develop the software.

QA

Test the software.

Agile Terminology

Scrum Terminology

Sprint Backlog

List of committed stories by DEV/QA for specific sprint.

Sprint/Iteration

Period of time to complete the user stories, decided by the product owner and team, usually 2-4 weeks of time.

Sprint Planning Meeting

Meeting conducts with the team to define what can be delivered in the sprint and duration.

Before the sprint starts a scope is decided in this meeting for the sprint. This is the meeting which finalizes the sprint backlog and sprint goal.

Story Point

Rough estimation of user stories, will be given by Dev & QA in the form of Fibonacci series.

0 1 1 2 3 5 8 …….

1 story point = 1 hour / 1 day ( 6 hours )

Scrum Meeting ( Daily Standup Meeting )

Meeting conducted by Scrum Master everyday 15 minutes called as Scrum call / Daily Standup Meeting to discuss –

What did you do yesterday ?

What will you do today ?

Are there any impediments in you way?

Sprint Review Meeting

Once the sprint is ended only the completed user stories are delivered. A review meeting is held to approve the deliverables this meeting is termed as a sprint review meeting.