The use of agiles methodologies and their importance for the development of software

Abstract

Developing software is certainly not easy work, for this reason there are several methodologies to facilitate the process in the development of projects, in this case Software Engineering. The agile development methodologies allow better results, in the course of the life cycle for continuous improvement in the development of the product based on learning, innovation and changes continuously in order to improve the quality, reliability and security of the software. On the other hand, we have more traditional proposals that focus especially on the control of the process, establishing rigorously the activities involved, the effects that must be produced, the tools and notations that will be used, being very effective in some cases, but also, presented problems in many others. Agile methodologies are revolutionizing the way of producing software, and at the same time generating a broad debate among their followers and those who, due to skepticism or conviction, do not see them as alternatives before traditional methodologies. In this article, through a bibliographic review, the aim is to demonstrate the impact of agile methodologies at the moment of developing software especially Scrum and Extreme Programming (eXtreme Programming, XP), which is considered the most popular agile methodology in the present.