Method Agility Ranking

June 15, 2008 · Print This Article

I often get asked which Method is the most Agile. I always say Scrum because it is a framework - a wrapper - into which you can roll engineering practices that suit your organisation. Boehm and Turner in their book - Balancing Agility and Discipline have made an attempt at ranking the methods.

Agility Rank

Method

1

 

SCRUM

2

 

Adaptive Software Development (ASD)

3

 

Lean Development (LD)

4

 

Crystal

5

 

eXtreme Programming (XP)

6

 

Dynamic Systems Development Method (DSDM)

6

 

Rational Unified Process (RUP)

6

 

Team Software Process (TSP)

9

 

Feature Driven Developmennt (FDD)

1

0

Capability Maturity Model Integration (CMMI)

11

 

Capability Maturity Model for Software (SW-CMM)

12

 

Personal Software Process (PSP)

13

 

Cleanroom

 

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