Could you tell us what the difference between Agile and Waterfall?
Sure, Agile guys are super laid back, and waterfall folks are really uptight :) No, that's not true, I know lot's of uptight agile guys too!
There are many differences between Agile methods (XP, SCRUM, Crystal, etc) and traditional "waterfall" methods, and a whole book could (and should) be written about it, but there are a few things that stand out for me (these are not all inclusive by the way).
- In an Agile environment, budget and time are fixed around Releases and Iterations, and scope (within each Release) is negotiable.
- In a waterfall environment, scope is fixed and both budget and schedule are negotiable (no one wants to negotiate these, but they do).
- In an Agile environment, a complete lifecycle is executed incrementally and iteratively against a subset of requirements during each iteration, enabling both the business customer and the development staff to learn along the way. These small sets are delivered to customer in useable chunks.
- In a waterfall environment, the requirements are fixed at the beginning, extensive planning is done, and all changes are managed through a formal change control process. The entire set of requirements is completed, the code is designed, built, and tested, and then delivered.
Finally . . .
- In an Agile environment, they pride themselves on focusing more on development and less on documentation (for better or worse)
- In a waterfall environment, most everything is written down, many times (for better or worse)
Both of the last items are problematic, but that seems to be the behavior.
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