Tuesday, February 5, 2013

Introduction to Agile Development

Scrum enables you to keep everything visible. It allows the team to know exactly what’s going on and make adjustments to the project to keep it moving forward.

Scrum Agile Development is a framework for software development that the has been influencing development in the CUAHSI community, which includes the approach taken with the development of HydroDesktop. In this iterative approach, a backlog of tasks is created, these tasks are prioritized, then the highest priority tasks are developed during a sprint that lasts for a specified duration. For HydroDesktop, we use Codeplex to create a backlog of issues and tasks and we have weekly meetings on Monday to identify tasks and discuss progress. The developers then work during the rest of the week to resolve the prioritized issues or develop high priority new features. The process then repeats itself the next week.

For more, check out this post on the Elementool Blog.



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