Kevalkumar Mashru

3/26/2020

Prof. Jun Ma

3.1. At the end of their study program, students in a software engineering course are typically

expected to complete a major project. Explain how the agile methodology may be very useful

for the students to use in this case.

In Agile method of software development instead of of spending too much time on creating a detailed

plan for the whole project that might not be possible to execute later on, the Agile team begins with a

small portion of work first and then collects feedback regarding that and then moves forward. With agile

the students can manage the work more efficiently and finish it in a more effective manner. By breaking

down the project into smaller parts the students can focus on high quality development and testing of

those parts. Agile also produces frequent builds that are tested and reviewed during every iteration which

leads to faster detection of fixing of defects and improve the quality of the project. With Agile method the

students can focus on the main functionality of the project first and then move forward with adding more

functionality depending on the time they have to complete the project.

3.2. Explain how the principles underlying agile methods lead to the accelerated development and

deployment of software.

The principles underlying agile development are-

a) Individuals and Interactions are given priority over processes and tools. It takes advantage of the skills

of the individual that are part of the development team and it also ensures the development team what

each of the members are doing. Thus, the team can focus on the development of the software.

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 b) Working software over documentation of the software. This principle contributes to accelerated

development as time is not wasted in the planning and managing of the documentation and the focus is

mainly on development and testing of the software.

c) Customer collaboration. Customer are able to provide feedback during the development process and

tell the development team what is required. This allows the important functionalities to be developed and

delivered earlier.

d) Responding to change instead of following a plan. Responding to a change is more effective than

following a plan as change are always needed and can't be avoided. While following a plan there is a

chance that some work may be done that might get removed later on which results in wastage of time and

effort.

All these principles of Agile method results in accelerated development and deployment of software.

3.3. Extreme programming expresses user requirements as stories, with each story written on a

card. Discuss the advantages and disadvantages of this approach to requirements description.

The advantage is that the user story is a short description of what the user needs the software to do ( the

different functions that the system is needed to perform). It is expected from the developers who are

responsible for the implementation of the user story will further elaborate the details by communicating

with the user. Since a short description is taken of each user story, It saves time and effort by not

discussing the details of every story as some stories might get discarded later on.

While in Requirement Description, every requirement is described in detail some of which might get

discarded later on.

The disadvantage is that direct communication is required between the user and the developers to further

elaborate the details of the requirement and will completely depend on the explanation that the user

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 provides of what he needs and what the developer understands from that explanation. While in

Requirement Description the detail of all the requirements that needs to be fulfilled are already provided

and the developer just needs to follow that.

3.8. Why is it necessary to introduce some methods and documentation from plan-based

approaches when scaling agile methods to larger projects that are developed by distributed

development teams?

the team may end up learning the hard way if documentation is not done. There are issues which need to

be documented as the progress of the scrum program is being monitored. Taking daily scrum notes helps

team members overcome language problems, plan and learn. Scrum teams should follow continuous

integration, test automation, test driven development practice to foster distributed collaboration during the

sprint and help teams complete user stories within the sprint. the decision about the extent of

documentation for what components and code logics to be put in place remains up to the team to decide.

3.10. One of the problems of having a user closely involved with a software development team is

that they “go native.” That is, they adopt the outlook of the development team and lose sight

of the needs of their user colleagues. Suggest three ways how you might avoid this problem,

and discuss the advantages and disadvantages of each approach.

1.

Involve multiple users in the development team.

\Advantages are you get multiple perspectives on the problem, better coverage of user tasks and hence

requirements and less likelihood of having an atypical user.

Disadvantages are cost, difficulties of getting user engagement and possible user conflicts.

2.

Change the user who is involved with the team.

Advantages are, again, multiple perspectives.

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 Disadvantages are each user takes time to be productive and possible conflicting requirements from

different users.

3.

Validate user suggestions with other user representatives.

Advantages are independent check on suggestions;

Disadvantage is that this slows down the development process as it takes time to do the checks

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