Comparision of Different Agile Methodologies & Determining which is more Effective for Heavy & Complex Projects of Software Industry

Abstract

Project Management has reached new heights, new a days. The reason behind the scene is that, it has created a better understanding of how the projects are to be monitored in a better fashion, how the projects are to be evaluated in a better way and what kind of remedies are available in case if the project is not on track as it was decided in the planning phase. An eye opening intervention was the use of Agile Models. Agile models, contain a bucket full of different models with different properties. The organization which is implementing the agile models has to make sure that the model's properties must align with the project's nature. Agile models have been in practice for small scale projects since long ago. But current study involves the application of agile model in large and complex projects of Software Industry. By taking the expert's opinion, using questionnaire technique, few recommendations are set for this thesis. With the help of questionnaire, different agile models were compared and best voted by the people of industry including the General Managers, Senior Managers, Project Managers, Team Leaders, Developers, Quality Assurance, Designer and Business Analyst chose models from Scrum, Extreme Programming, Dynamic System Development and Adaptive Software Development. It was concluded that most of the project that were termed as heavy and complex were using models Scrum, Adaptive Software Development and Extreme Programming respectively.