Tuesday, November 1, 2011

Agile Software Development - What the hell it is?

Agile Software Development practices are hot in Software industry these days and all for good reasons. I have been working in an environment which has just started adopting some of the Agile methodologies and mixed them with our standard practices. So of course, we are still in learning mode and trying to fetch most out of what we have learned so far.


As of now, I am not directly involved in any of the Agile processes being followed in my organization. But I wanted to know how they work and why they are in such a high demand these days... So when I went to a friend in office that what exactly it is and what all you guys do.


His first reaction was - How the hell can you say that you have zero knowledge about Agile. I am a frequent participant of various conferences happen in India and many times heard big leaders talking about it, but somehow I was never able to digest all that theory :) ... Now I realized that anything which is not in practice is theory and one has to start with theory only !


So I thought of understanding it now. Today I got a book  by Mike Cohn, who has written about User Stories Applied under main title of Agile Software Development.


We have lots of books in Library but I picked this one because of it's different name - 'User Stories Applied'. Even I was not aware what User Stories are :) ... Anyway, whatever story I was trying to make above is true upto one level but I have some knowledge about Agile Software Development methodologies and now ready to learn more about these... 


Hope to share more around AGILE things and first we will understand what these USER STORIES are :)

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