A CRITICAL ANALYSIS AND COMPARISON OF AGILE WITH TRADITIONAL SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT PROCESS

Abstract

During the past years, new software development approaches were introduced to suit within the new trend of the software development corporations. Most Software Corporation’s today aim to provide valuable software in short period of time with marginal prices and among unstable, ever-changing environments. Agile methodology focuses on the challenges of unpredictability of the real world by relying on individuals and their creative thinking instead of method. In this paper we tend to explore about the current agile methods, strengths and weaknesses of agile strategies and numerous problems with their relevancy. We have conjointly enclosed comparison between traditional software development process and agile software development process. This paper also includes brief discussion about the benefits and problems associated with these methodologies by performing case study of two corporations.