A STUDY OF AGILE METHODOLOGIES AND ITS USE IN SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT

Agile software design and development methodologies have been gaining ri-gorous attention in the software engineering research community since their early introduction in the mid-nineties in addition to being highly adopted by the software development industry. During the past forty years, new software development approaches were introduced to fit the new cultures of the software development companies. Most software companies nowadays aim to produce valuable software in short time period with minimal costs, and within unstable, changing environments. Agile Methodologies were thus introduced to meet the new requirements of the software development companies. This paper presents a review of three agile approaches including Extreme Programming, Agile Modeling, and SCRUM, describes the differences between them and recommends when to use them