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Methodology

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Software Development at Aress has adopted the Agile Software Development methodology and uses it effectively depending upon the scope of the project and customer requirements. Adapting to Agile methodology has proved to achieve timely delivery of projects, customer satisfaction and moreover welcomes changes in requirements if needed by the customer, even in the late stages of development.
Some of the principles behind the Agile Manifesto
  • Customer satisfaction by rapid, continuous delivery of useful software
  • Working software is delivered frequently (weeks rather than months)
  • Working software is the principal measure of progress
  • Even late changes in requirements are welcomed
  • Close, daily cooperation between business people and developers
  • Projects are built around motivated individuals, who should be trusted
  • Continuous attention to technical excellence and good design
  • Simplicity
  • Self-organizing teams
  • Regular adaptation to changing circumstance
Feature Driven Development (FDD)
(FDD) is an iterative and incremental software development process. It is one of a number of Agile methods for developing software.
FDD describes five basic activities that are within the software development process:

  • 1Develop Overall Model
  • Requirements Analysis and documentation of those
  • Seek approval of the analysis from the client
  • Define system detailed workflows and documentation of those
  • Seek approval from client on the workflows defined
  • Design the system prototypes (screen designs using HTML wireframes)
  • Seek approval from the client for those
  • Database design
  • 2Build Feature List
  • Decompose the requirements/workflows defined into subject areas
  • Subject areas would each contain business activities
  • Steps within these business activities would form the categorized feature list.
  • 3Plan By Feature
  • Produce a development plan
  • Ordering and assigning features to software developers
  • 4Design by Feature
  • Selection of group of features that are to be developed within 2 weeks
  • Detailed sequence diagram for each feature
  • Class and method prologues are written
  • 5Build by Feature
  • Programmers develop the actual code for their classes
  • After unit test and a successful code inspection by QA team
  • Completed features are submitted to review by client
Some of the principles behind the Agile Manifesto
Agile is an iterative and incremental (evolutionary) approach to software product development which is performed in a highly collaborative manner by self-organizing teams with "just enough" ceremony that produces high quality software in a cost effective and timely manner which meets the changing needs of its stakeholders.
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