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Agile Intro for Waterfall Teams

8/2/2020

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Are you a longtime Waterfall business analyst or project team member an environment moving to an Agile methodology for managing projects and performing software development activities on those projects?  Then this article may be a decent intro for you.  Think of it as sort of a Waterfall ==> Agile 101 involving and discussing just a few of the key high-level differences between these two differing project delivery and software development methodologies.  From there, it’s more about getting your feet wet on a real Agile project and learning the ropes along the way.  Fake it till you make it, but you still need to perform productively and plan to improve with each project… even with each deliverable and “sprint.”

Now… let’s start by defining a “sprint” since I just used that term. In product development or a software development process, a sprint is a set period of time during which specific work has to be completed and made ready for review. Certain functionality – agreed to in advance – is created and finalized during each sprint.  Where as Waterfall looks at a project as a series of phases… which brings us to our first discussion of key transitional understandings for the business analyst and project team members…
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In Waterfall, the software development process is divided into phases that happen once – in Agile they can happen over and over again. On the Waterfall project, the software development process is divided into different key phases. In an Agile methodology the software process is basically broken up into a series of sprints – each creating and finalizing a new or set of new functionalities.  The end of the project isn’t the only rollout of working functionality… rather that happens at the end of each sprint.  Waterfall looks at the software development process as one big single project divided into many phases and deliverables, but each appears only once during the development lifecycle.  With Agile, the same phases may actually appear in each sprint.  For example, design, development and testing will appear repeatedly rather than only once. The Agile software development project can actually be viewed as a collection of many different projects and can… and often will… grow with the customer’s needs, changing and evolving requirements, as well as their expanding funding and budget availability.
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