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Rapid Software Development
- Rapid development and delivery is now often the most important requirement for software systems
- Business operate in a fast: changing requirements, and it is practically impossible to produce a set of stable software requirements.
- Software has to evolve quickly to reflect changing business needs.
- Plan-driven development is essential for some types of system but does not meet these business needs.
- Agile development methods emerged in the last 1990s, whose aim was to radically reduce the delivery time for working software systems.
Features of Agile Development
- Program specification, design and implementation are inter-leaved.
- The system is developed as a series of versions or increments with stakeholders involved in version specification and evaluation.
- Frequent delivery of new versions for evaluation.
- Extensive tool support used to support development.
- Minimal documentation: focus on working code.