Agile Development Approach or Waterfall — which software development approach is better for my project?

Time and again, there are clients who are confused (while outsourcing their software development project to us) about whether we, at ISHIR, follow the agile software development approach or waterfall for most of our application and software development projects. We have clients who are also concerned about whether agile will work better for their project or waterfall. At times, we spend hours discussing the best development methodology for our clients’ software development requirements.

Since the response is not so simple, I decided to address it through this blog.

There is a trend you’re likely to find when dealing with outsourcing software development vendors. Large and predictable organizations are usually comfortable with the waterfall approach as it provides a standardized and centralized to development across the organization. But things are changing rapidly. Businesses are rapidly depending on digital business and services, wherein the primary need is to speed up their time to market. This is where agile development methodology can help.

If I get to the rudimentary level, waterfall is known as the traditional approach while agile is the new approach and is implemented with the help of Scrum.

Waterfall isn’t that bad

Waterfall follows a linear software development approach (and predictable too). So you typically start with:

1. Gathering requirements
2. Design
3. Code
4. Unit testing
5. System testing
6. User acceptance testing
7. Bug fixing
8. Deployment

If waterfall is truly followed, each of the stages mentioned above is a distinct software development phase. One stage only begins once the one prior to it is over. For example, you can’t start designing before the client has approved and signed off the requirements.

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