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Software engineering methodologies are evolving to address the complexity and probable dynamism of the business requirements. One of the methodologies –Agile - helps teams respond to the unpredictability of building software through incremental, iterative work cadences, also known as sprints. In an agile paradigm, every aspect of development — requirements, design, etc. is continually revisited throughout the lifecycle creating high visibility of the progress to all the stakeholders in the application development process. Traditional methodology involves creating the requirements for the complete application and then the development team almost goes into hibernation to develop the application and more often than not ends up giving unpleasant surprises to business. Nobody inclusive of the SMEs sometimes is able to visualize the final application state; moreover the demands are changing and creating chaos in the development process. AGILE comes to rescue as all the stakeholders are involved in the application development process beginning with the first iteration. Instead of building what developer understands or rather interprets and showing end product collectively, we prefer to show application in pieces take feedback and improve in an iterative manner. It becomes a continuous improvement process. AGILE gives a good visibility on development process, application feature sets and planning process to all stakeholders.
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