Building Powerful Mobile Apps Using Scrum and Kanban Methodologies

Traditional methodologies take a stepwise approach to project execution. Thus, the project goes through the requirement gathering, planning, development, monitoring straight to its closure in successive stages. The most popular model is the waterfall model, it has been a dominant software development methodology.

The method works well for clearly outlined projects with a single deliverable and glued point in time. The Waterfall approach requires thorough planning, extensive project documentation and tight control over the development process. In theory, this could result in on-time, on-budget delivery, low project risks, and predictable final results.

The disadvantage of waterfall development is that it doesn’t enable abundant reflection or revision. Once an application is in the testing stage, it is very hard to go back and change something that was not well documented or thought upon in the initial stage.

As compared to the traditional approach, Agile Methodology has been introduced to make software engineering more flexible and efficient. With ninety-four percent of the organizations practicing agile in 2016, it has become the industry standard for project management.

However, the modern agile approach was formally introduced in 2001, when a group of seventeen software package development professionals met to debate various project management methodologies. Having a transparent vision of the versatile, lightweight and team-oriented software development approach, they mapped it out in the Manifesto for Agile Software Development.

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