One of the most important industries of knowledge-based economy, by all means, is the software industry. In order to achieve business success and to innovate in the market, almost every large organization relies on software. The emergence of Web 2.0 and web-based services have changed radically the way of conducting business as well as the way of building applications. In a web service environment, software applications are becoming services that can be easily linked with other software components, and can provide faster and more productive communication between businesses and customers.
The software development companies now need to release products and services more frequently, involve the user participation even as co-developers, and improve the product continuously by receiving real time feedback from the users. In such a dynamic and networked business environment, many companies are adopting Agile software development. There are many reasons for this: agile methods require continuous dialog between business and IT. Fast respond to change and meeting customer satisfactions through early and continuous delivery of the software is the main goal of agile methodology.
This presentation will tell us the difference between Agile and Waterfall model, in terms of value delivery, and business-IT alignment.
