Agile Methodology and Prototyping Methodology

Project development methodology is the process of dividing software development into different phases with better planning and management in order to achieve successful completion. Choosing the development methodologies is not always easy and it is different from project to project.

Agile Methodology refers to the group of different methodologies based on frequent inspection, adaption and iterative development. These include Crystal, Scrum, Extreme Programming, Feature-Driven development, and Dynamic System Development Method.          Usually, agile methodologies is people oriented rather than process oriented to predict the unpredictable reality in development process. This is done by regular development and extensive testing of small stages of systems. Most of all, Rapid delivery of high quality software even with the frequent inspection and adaption makes the agile methodology so popular.

Prototyping Methodology is an evolutionary development of building, testing and reworking of the prototype until the acceptable is achieved. It is the method of building the systems to get general idea about the customer needs at the inception of the project. Which involves regular iterative cycles of design to build fast and high level version of software. This process stops when the system is completed successfully by meeting all the customer requirements or when the system is terminated by the reasons of impossible achievement, complex and costly development. Prototyping is an efficient development methodology because of iterative development process usually made clear understanding of the system requirements leads to project success.