Extreme Programming (XP) In an XP project, programmers and business managers set up “stories” on index cards. Each story describes a piece of development and the amount of time it will take. Those are ordered on a storyboard. If there are too many stories for the amount of time allotted for the project (and there always are), a CIO or project manager must decide what stories to remove. One story must be finished before another is started. Team coding is suggested.Standard & Poor’s S&P is institutionalizing its own Agile methodology and creating templates for future projects. It’s similar to XP but with less focus on team coding and more on limiting project scope. Says CIO Ken Moskowitz, “We have an entire group that controls scope changes. No one can change the scope unilaterally.”Recipe for Success Developed by Jim Johnson of The Standish Group, Recipe for Success follows Agile’s rules for iterative development and minimal features while emphasizing a standard infrastructure. When Johnson consults on these projects, standard means don’t tweak. Ever.Scrum Scrum uses monthly “Sprints.” Each Sprint is devoted to developing features collected in a “Backlog.” Scrum meetings (essentially triage), in which the team gathers to check the project’s progress, are held every day. Adaptive Software Development/Crystal Two Agile methodologies that recently merged. Adaptive development’s hallmark is collaboration between business and IT. There’s no planning; there’s speculation. Crystal was designed to sacrifice some of XP’s productivity for ease of implementation. The two methodologies hope that in concert they can prove more effective than they were solo. Dynamic System Development Method (DSDM) Think of it as XP’s progenitor, popular in the United Kingdom. DSDM preaches two-to-six-week cycles, small development teams and minimal requirements with the expectation they’ll change. But unlike other Agile techniques, it also borrows more heavily from traditional development. A DSDM project even starts with a feasibility study that includes some of the planning and requirements tactics of traditional development. Related content BrandPost The future of trust—no more playing catch up Broadcom: 2023 Tech Trends That Transform IT By Eric Chien, Director of Security Response, Symantec Enterprise Division, Broadcom Mar 31, 2023 5 mins Security BrandPost TCS gives Blackhawk Network an edge with Microsoft Cloud In this case study, Blackhawk Network’s Cara Renfroe joins Tata Consultancy Services’ Rakesh Kumar and Microsoft’s Nilendu Pattanaik to explain how TCS transformed the gift card company’s customer engagement and global operati By Tata Consultancy Services Mar 31, 2023 1 min Financial Services Industry Cloud Computing IT Leadership BrandPost How TCS pioneered the ‘borderless workspace’ with Microsoft 365 Microsoft’s modern workplace solution proved a perfect fit for improving productivity and collaboration, while maintaining security of systems and data. By Tata Consultancy Services Mar 31, 2023 1 min Financial Services Industry Microsoft Cloud Computing BrandPost Supply chain decarbonization: The missing link to net zero By improving the quality of global supply chain data, enterprises can better measure their true carbon footprint and make progress toward a net-zero business ecosystem. By Tata Consultancy Services Mar 31, 2023 2 mins Retail Industry Supply Chain Green IT Podcasts Videos Resources Events SUBSCRIBE TO OUR NEWSLETTER From our editors straight to your inbox Get started by entering your email address below. Please enter a valid email address Subscribe