Comparative Study of Agile Methods and Their Comparison with Heavyweight Methods in Indian Organizations

“Agile” means nimble or quick moving and “Agility” means the ability to think and draw conclusions quickly. In terms of software development agility means dynamic, content specific, growth oriented and able to adopt the changes quickly and easily. The roots of agile go back more than a decade but it is on the boom from the last two decades. It was February 2001, when a group of people kept a meeting in Utah, in order to find an alternative method to the existing heavy software development methodologies and the result was agile methodology. Although there are 13 agile methods and exact number of Agile method is still a debate question. I have included only 5 methods, Scrum, XP, DSDM, FDD, Lean Software