Web-Based Agile Software Development

he Internet changed software development’s top priority from what to when. Reduced time-to-market has become the competitive edge that leading companies strive for. Thus, reducing the development cycle is now one of software engineering’s most important missions. The market demands that we deliver software ever more quickly, but also with richer functionality and higher quality. Further, today’s time-sensitive business climate requires that we quickly accommodate requirements changes during development and, after development, be equally adept at delivering the upgrades caused by software’s rapid software evolution and the customer’s ever-increasing requirements. On the other hand, many software development organizations have become dispersed, with more than 50 percent of their developers spread across multiple teams at geographically distributed sites. Thus, the friction of distributed—and therefore often delayed—communication actually works to slow software development. To meet the sometimes conflicting demands of delivering software products faster Mikio Aoyama, Niigata Institute of Technology Web-Based Agile Software Development