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Software Design
Lecture : 2
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Software CHAOS Report
Standish Group Study 1995
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46 % date or budget excess
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28 % failure
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Only 9 % of all large IT projects in time and budget
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Standish Report in 2006
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Studied 40,000 projects in 10 years
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That's more than a 100percent improvement from the
success rate in 1995
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The primary reason is the projects have gotten a lot
smaller. Doing projects with iterative processing as
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Agile Processes – Light
Weight Methodologies
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Slogan : “Change is the only
Constant”
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Iterations rather than phases
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Each Iteration results in working code for testing.
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Agile Development Process
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Core Values of Agile Methods
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Individuals and interactions over processes and tools.
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Working software over comprehensive
documentation.
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Customer collaboration over contract negotiation.
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Extreme Programming (XP)
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Introduced by Kent Beck in 1996
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Is the answer to the heavyweight software processes such
as Water Fall or VModel.
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It is intended to improve software quality and
responsiveness to changing customer requirements.
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XP continues...
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XP advocates frequent "releases" in short development
cycles which is intended to improve productivity and
introduce checkpoints where new customer requirements
can be adopted.
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XP Corner Stone
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Communication
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Simplicity
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Feedback
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Courage
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Sample User Story Card
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MSCW (Must Should Could Won't)
Approach
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User Stories impact
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Scheduling using priority assigned by stakeholder.
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Time Estimation by developers
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XP Practices
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Planning game
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Small Releases
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Metaphor
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Simple design
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Testing before code
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Refactoring – Code Optimization
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Pair Programming
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Collective Ownership
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Continuous Integration
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XP a myth !
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Quote about XP
„It is necessary to breaks out of the zero
sum model of the four variables –time,
scope, cost, and quality. You can’t get
software out of the door faster by
lowering quality. Instead, you get
software out of the door faster by raising