Agile Umbrella Methodologies and its Global Impact

Abstract

Agile methodologies came as a boon in the field of Software Engineering. As per the needs of various stakeholders, “change” is the new change in the market and Agile fits well to this urge. Agile initiates a change in the Software Engineering culture, wherein all the major State-Of-The-Art methodologies viz. Scrum, eXtreme Programming and Kanban has been discussed in this paper. This paper presents current state of these methodologies covering their complete span from basic definitions to global impact in IT industries. The facts are discussed and presented after mining various repositories like Collabnet Version One. It can be inferred that Scrum is widely used and has a major impact amongst all other agile umbrella methodologies. The paper will assist all potential researchers as one stop solution to understand the various dimensions of agile methodologies.