Agile Reality over Rhetoric (Agility@Scale: Strategies for Scaling Agile Software Development) Agility@Scale: Strategies for Scaling Agile Software Development. I was recently involved in an online discussion about how to calculate the benefits realized by software development teams.
As with most online discussions it quickly devolved into camps and the conversation didn’t progress much after that. In this case there was what I would characterize as a traditional project camp and a much smaller agile/lean product camp. The Agile System Development Life Cycle (SDLC) As we described in the book The Enterprise Unified Process (EUP) the scope of life cycles can vary dramatically.
For example, Figure 1 depicts the Scrum construction life cycle whereas Figure 2 depicts an extended version of that diagram which covers the full system development life cycle (SDLC). Later in this article we talk about an Enterprise IT Lifecycle. My points are: Figure 1 uses the terminology of the Scrum methodology. The rest of this article uses the terminology popularized in the mid-1990s by the Unified Process (Sprint = Iteration, Backlog = Stack, Daily Scrum Meeting = Daily Meeting) and also adopted by Disciplined Agile Delivery (DAD).