Software Development

In the 20th century organizations viewed software development investments as projects. They would plan the project, document the requirements, implement the software, test the software, then release the software. While this process made sense on the surface, a lot of the software that it produced failed miserably after it was released. Processes that follow this development model are now labeled Waterfall. In the early 21st century there was a great shift in enterprise software development. In February 2001 a group of 17 leading software engineering experts met at a ski lodge in Utah to discuss the state of software development. What emerged from that meeting is called the Agile Manifesto. ...