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November 2004 An Introduction to Agile Software Development by Victor Szalvay , co-founder Danube Technologies, Inc. Web site: Web log: /blog/ 12011 Bel-Red Rd. Suite 201 Bellevue, WA 98005 (425) 688-0888, ext. 812 Introduction This paper is an introduction to the Agile school of software development, and is primarily targeted at IT managers and CXOs with an interest in improving development productivity. What is Agile? How can Agile help improve my organization? First, I introduce the two broad schools of thought when it comes to software development: traditional sequential, a.k.a. “the waterfall method”, and iterative methods of which Agile is a subset. My objective is to demonstrate the short-comings of the waterfall approach while providing a solution in iterative, and more specifically, Agile methods . Part I – Shortcomings of Traditional Waterfall Approach The essence of waterfall software development is that complex software systems can be built in a sequential, phase-wise manner where all of the requirements are gathered at the beginning, all of the design is completed next, and finally the master design is implemented into production quality software. This approach holds that complex systems can be built in a single pass, without going back and revisiting requirements or design ideas in light of changing business or technology conditions. It was first introduced in an article written by Winston Royce in 1970, 1 primarily intended for use in government projects . Waterf