Adjusting to Scrum

Scrum, the new development methodology in the Agile development family, is fast gaining acceptance in software development. But how can writers, who have little or no experience in any of the incremental development models, adjust to this methodology? And, how does the Documentation Development Life Cycle (DDLC) change in Scrum?

Text by Prasanna Bidkar

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Adjusting to Scrum

As explained in the earlier tcworld article Project Management with Scrum, Scrum or Agile was developed based on the concept of Flexible Manufacturing that allows us to react to changes in customer requirements later in the development life cycle.

Various agile development methodologies have been in practice in the last decade including Extreme Programming and Feature Driven Development. All of these methodologies help with the development and delivery of software in small increments and enable feedback from the customer. This short loop of delivery and feedback allows the organization to react to changing requirements. The Scrum development methodology not only promotes incremental development and delivery, but also encourages less upfront planning and internal documentation. The idea is to keep the planning effort minimal and let the software evolve in accordance to market changes and ...