Project Management: Agile vs. Waterfall
5th Oct 2016
While Project Management is used in many industries, and niches within the IT industry - when you speak with Software Development teams the discussion invariably moves towards the decision between a "Waterfall" or "Agile" approach.
Agile management or agile project management is an iterative and incremental method of managing the design and build activities for engineering, information technology, and new product or service development projects in a highly flexible and interactive manner, for example agile software development.
Agile management - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
I found this blog article which explains quite nicely the reasoning this company uses to choose either Agile or Waterfall for their individual projects and clients. Read it here:
http://www.seguetech.com/blog/2013/07/05/waterfall-vs-agile-right-development-methodology My next step was to find a few videos that explain the concepts in an articulate and engaging way. Would you believe that it's actually quite difficult to find a youtube video that is recent (i.e within the past 12 months) and has an in depth discussion or overview of the differences between Waterfall and Agile Software development? I quite like this one, but it's 5 years (!!) old: [kad_youtube url="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jL1VOF5JgPQ" ] What do you think about this one? It's from 2008 but I still think he raises some valid points: [kad_youtube url="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ey3J5KSi1Fo" ] (buckle up though, as it's a full key note that takes approx. one hour!)