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Agile Project Management – Part 5

Difference between Agile and Waterfall

Waterfall is a heavy, hierarchical approach that emphasizes procedures and documentation along with the software life-cycle. When a software is developed through Waterfall it’s going to follow basically six stages:

Requirements: the team will gather all the requirements for the software to be produced through meetings and interviews with stakeholders, including the customer.

Design: this stage is when the software is going to be designed, to translate the requirements into wire-frames and user interfaces.

Implementation: phase to create the code to put into effect the software designed. This code is the essence of the software development, that is what gives ‘life’ to the software.

Testing: time to test the code created to make sure that everything works accordingly to the requirements and design.

Deployment: now the software is completed and tested and it can be placed on the market to be used.

Maintenance: the last stage is to fix and correct possible errors found down the road as well as to make improvements where needed.

In summary, Waterfall believes that each phase of the software development needs to be completed before the next phase can start, to deliver the whole product at once at the hand of ensuring that everything is well documented and approved by the stakeholders.

Now, Agile has some contrasts to Waterfall but also some similarities: it believes that is more important to produce small portions of the software and deliver it constantly, making room for changes throughout the way. It emphasizes people over processes, it gives the development team the autonomy needed so they can work according to their time estimation and knowledge.

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