Comments on: Viewpoint : FDD (Feature Driven Development) – A Low-hanging Agile Fruit

By: Gopinath

Gopinath — Fri, 27 Jan 2012 05:29:34 +0000

Bob,
Thanks for your comments.
Good to hear from an “avid fan” of this lesser hyped yet pragmatic method of developing software.

By: Gopinath

Gopinath — Fri, 27 Jan 2012 05:18:21 +0000

Thanks Rathina. Hopefully your posting will rekindle the discussion and we will get some more perspectives.

By: Robert Starinsky

Robert Starinsky — Fri, 27 Jan 2012 05:03:00 +0000

Gopinath:

Thank you for providing a very balanced review of Feature Driven Development (FDD). I first came across FDD in 2000 and have been an avid fan since. FDD is a lighter-weight, yet scalable software development methodology that is particularly well suited for business driven application development.

In particular you noted that: ‘FDD invests comparatively more time in upfront requirements specifications and design as compared to other agile methods. It has well defined sequential modeling and planning steps for this purpose.’

I would submit your perspectives on FDD are spot on.

Regards,

Bob

By: Rathina

Rathina — Thu, 26 Jan 2012 17:04:30 +0000

Posted the below message in yahoo groups:
I agree that FDD will get quicker buy-in in an organization where waterfall is the religion.

But if the organization culture is more adaptive and flexible to change I would certainly suggest to try out Scrum.

If the organization culture is very bureaucratic and slow in changing – people resist changes in a big way – then take baby steps through FDD.

It does not matter whether we call it FDD / Scurm, a smart manager can inject agile principle in small doses in his/her projects reaping benefits local to the project.

Rathina