Technical Review: The Agile and Waterfall Method In Web Application Development Abstract – Today, there are millions web application or web app on the internet, including app market, such as Amazon app store, Apple Store, Chrome App Store, etc. The web application is server-based application, and client no need to install the software in their local pc or laptop. User just need to use compatible browser to access the web application at anywhere and anytime. In fact, the web application still a form of software. To develop a successful software, an appropriate software development method is critical. Because, it is a guide book to monitor the development life cycle throughout the development project. In this work, two popular methods will …show more content…
In general, it is a web-based software that the architecture consists of user interaction, logical operation, and data storage. And in most cases, software development need teamwork which means lots developer with different background work together for one goal. A proper working process would be helpful to successfully complete the development. In some situation, a system too large to build without an overall plan that coordinates the people working on it. According to Sharon Florentine, senior writer of CIO.com, 50 percent of businesses experience IT project fail in 2012. The most common reason, responded by 74 percent of interviewees, is a lack of resources to meet project demands [4]. Three years later, the failure number increased that 55 percent of businesses surveyed experienced an IT project failure within last 12 months [5]. When we create a product or provide a service, such as developing software, writing a report, generate a business analysis, we always follow a series of ordered steps to accomplish a set of tasks. To correctly produce an intended output, the tasks must be completed as specific order, we can consider a set of ordered tasks as a process, involving activities, constraints, and resources. When the process involves the building of some
Why don't information systems projects work out as planned? What causes the differences between the plan and reality?
There are multiple reasons why projects fail. Memorial Health System undertook a major investment by spending millions of dollars to implement an enterprise-wide clinician provider order entry (CPOE) system. In order to avoid losing money and the confidence of its stakeholders, leadership and the CIO may have had the opportunity to choose a different approach. There are least five indicators that a project might be ready to fail including failure to engage stakeholders, poor project leadership, unclear goals and vision, inability to track and manage a project, and inadequate planning.
Projects can be affected by a wide range of issues that may cause it to fail from not meeting project scope, timeframe, budgetary constraints to lack of management support or bad customer service. Failures of a project can affect morale, employment, and waste time and money. For a project to be started without adequate organization may end as a failure.
Stevens Company must ensure that their project management team has a detail and thorough plan with contingencies. Also a creation of a test plan before the newly implemented system is put into place
Failure of IT projects has plagued the IT industry since the introduction of automated systems into
Application requirements are provided by stakeholders and users for all development efforts. This is true for both agile and waterfall development projects. The difference is the amount of requirements that are provided. In the waterfall approach, all requirements are provided at the beginning of the project (Israr Ur Rehman, 2010, p. 2). Specifically, for a new application, the expectation is that stakeholders are able to provide all the requirements for the new application. Stakeholders, project managers, business analysts, users of the application meet to identify and document the requirements. Detailed application documentation is created, reviewed and signed off by the appropriate stakeholder (Ove Armbrust, 2011, p. 239). Following the agile methodology, requirements are defined for the phase to be delivered. The goal is to break up the application into iterations and define the requirements for the iterations or stories (Ove Armbrust, 2011, p. 239). In the agile implementations, the requests are stored in a backlog. This is the list stories remaining to be developed. Requirements documentation generated from a waterfall project is extensive; in contrast to agile where the documentation is limited to the story or stories to be developed (Ove Armbrust, 2011, p. 239). In my experience, the requirements documentation has been stored in a central repository to be referenced during the project.
Agile methods, unlike ISDs, bring constant iterations, constant user involvement, and frequent releases and close communication. Clutterbuck emphasizes how a case study of one small SME shows the success gained when it moved away from ISD towards agile management. Overall, agile management anticipates risks, reacts aggressively to new challenges or encrustations, and allows all parties and decision makers to draw closer together. The only challenge, Clutterbuck (2009) argues, is that agile management does come into conflict with the need to formalize contractual obligations between the customer and the developer or producer of the product (Clutterbuck, 2009).
and new demands from users (Uikey & Suman, 2012). The SDLC focuses on the prime
As it is with all decisions we make in the day, there are often multiple opportunities which often times lead to a single outcome. Such decisions as, “Do I take the turnpike today” can have such a profound impact on the outcomes. Will you hit traffic on turnpike and as a result miss a meeting. If you go the backway do you make the scheduled meeting? On any given day the same approach you have always taken can backfire. Keeping this in mind we must learn how the business methods we implement can often lead to the same outcome. What differs is the process
A problem face nowadays by many companies is related on decide between continue to use a plan driven methodology, such as Waterfall, or trying a different approach like Agile. The major problem might be the way these two concepts are often presented as being mutually exclusive. This dichotomy often causes an automatic rejection of one methodology over the other, making it even more complicated to decide between one or another. This polarization misconception is what makes so difficult to successfully applying an Agile project management approach. Instead of trying to use the best of each approach, or to adapt for its needs, companies sometimes try to force their business and projects to one of those extremes. The problem with
The use of structured methodologies in IT Project management is increasingly recognised as one of the fundamental drivers in reducing the likelihood of incomplete and costly IT project failures. The need for a systematic approach has been highlighted through a number of survey results on the failure of IT Projects. These results demonstrate that the significant issues associated with failed projects include the lack of; a defined project organisation, policy and procedures, implementation plans and integrated methods (Taylor 2003). It is apparent that these recognised issues can be significantly reduced through the implementation of standard project management methodologies. Lind and Culler (2013) completed research of 116 firms
We had developed the application by using the java as a programming language, HTML as a user interface designing for web pages and applied CSS styles for the web pages, Bootstrap to support the mobile based applications because online banking is one of the most important aspect in the present world, along with these we also provided many validations for the applications by using JavaScript. For all these we had Eclipse as a IDE and may other editors like sublime. We also used frameworks like springs and hibernate.
As we know, the growth of the internet was in the rapid paces; a lot of high bandwidth internet services had been provided and introduced into the world market. The web is changing fast from a one-way medium for ‘brochure-ware’ to a highly interactive and increasingly mission-critical platform. With this rapid evolution in web technology, web-based application now been considered as a part of the E-business world and been widely implemented.
Astronomically huge, involute, and inter-networked software systems show a serious part in numerous features at some organizations worth chains. User’s prerequisite software which can encounter stringent basics, which can create expeditiously and effectively, and can be easily maintain which can preserve pace with ever-incrementing response for functionality, quality, and cost-efficacy. The elevate of the World Wide Web and electronic commerce have intensified the tasks of software development by dramatically minimizing product development cycles and elevating time to market as a critical dimension of software development performance.
A web application is a software or a program that runs on the browsers. Web applications are developed using HTML, client side scripting and server side scripting technologies. They can be a browser based or client based. In browser based, programs run on a browser in a laptop, computer or mobile devices. In client based, a program runs on a computer or mobile device which interacts with a web server using standard protocols. Thus, web application are applications which allow users to retrieve or submit data to the database server over internet using internet protocols and display data on the web browser or application programs installed on computer. As, the number of business embrace the benefits of performing business activities over internet, the use of web application increases. Some example of web applications include inventory control system, search engines, credit card, billing information, bank accounts, transitions, email systems like yahoo, Gmail; word process like Google docs.