

AGILE WEB DEVELOPMENT VS WATERFALL
What is agile? Agile development is based on short ‘sprints’ where development teams quickly get working prototypes together within a matter of weeks. The focus is on getting something working in the shortest time possible. Once that’s done, the iterative process begins: working out the bugs, honing in on the design, and then test, test, and test some more. Eventually through this process the bugs will work themselves out. At least that is the goal.
So what is the waterfall method, you ask? Well it is almost the opposite. Waterfall projects have a defined set of objectives, desired functionality, budget, and time constraints–and the goal is to plan really well upfront, and hope that all of the pieces fall together in the end. This can lead to some late nights, stressful status meetings, and a lot of heads hitting walls. There has to be a better way.
With agile development, all parties have to agree with expectations. Since most people are used to the waterfall approach, it is difficult to show the client the beta updates without them getting very nervous about what the final outcome is like. We instead try to postpone beta reviews to the very last minute so that the working prototype looks its very best…only to find out that there are now other desired goals and objectives that could have been implemented along the way.
We don’t know if we’ll ever be a truly ‘agile’ development shop, but hopefully we can apply some of the basic principles behind this methodology to produce faster, better, less expensive web products for our clients.
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AGILE WEB DEVELOPMENT VS WATERFALL
Posted on: March 19th, 2012Online Advertising
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