SOEN Chapter 3 Intro

What is Rapid Software Development also known as?

• Plan Driven Development

• Agile Development

In which of these does iteration occur across activities, allowing them to be developed together rather than separately?

• Waterfall development

• Plan-Driven development

• Agile Development

• Sequential Development

In agile methods, how are the stages of specification, design, and implementation typically handled?

• They are separate and sequential

• They are intertwined and occur simultaneously

• They are skipped in favor of rapid prototyping

• They are handled exclusively by end-users

Which of the following is minimized in agile methods?

• Stakeholder involvement

• Tool support

• Documentation

• Incremental development

Which principle is emphasized in agile methods to handle changing requirements?

• Strict adherence to initial design

• Minimal customer involvement

• Incremental delivery

• Embrace change

How often are new releases typically made available to customers in agile methods?

• Every six months

• Every two or three weeks

• Once a year

• Monthly

In agile methods, which principle focuses on reducing unnecessary complexity in the system?

• Customer involvement

• Maintain simplicity

• Incremental delivery

• People, not process

Which principle of agile methods prioritizes strengths and collaboration of the development team over rigid processes?

• Incremental delivery

• Embrace change

• People, not process

• Customer involvement

Agile methods have been particularly successful in which two types of system development?

• Product development and custom system development within an organization

• Large-scale enterprise systems and embedded systems

• Open-source software development and real-time systems

• Legacy system maintenance and data migration projects

Which one of these is not an agile development technique?

• DSDM

• Extreme programming

• Scrum

• Waterfall model