Overview

Let’s look at some of the advantages of the Agile development model in this post.  The Agile model is a type of Incremental software development model. Software is developed in incremental, rapid time-boxed cycles called sprints. This results in small incremental working software releases with each release building on previous functionality. Each release is thoroughly tested to ensure quality.

Scrum and Extreme Programming (XP) are the popular agile development life cycle models.

Advantages of the Agile Model

Some of the advantages are as follows:

• Customer satisfaction by continuous and rapid delivery of working software.
• People and interactions are emphasized rather than processes and tools. Customers, developers, and testers constantly interact with each other.
• Working software is delivered frequently (weeks rather than months).
• The agile model is adaptable to changing requirements and circumstances. Even late changes in requirements are welcomed in this model.
• The agile model is used for time-critical projects and applications where requirements are not known upfront.
• Close, daily cooperation between business people and developers.
• In the Agile model, face-to-face conversation is the best form of communication.