Suppose you are the Chief Technology Officer of the 500-employee company, Software House, Inc., which builds custom applications for large financial companies. The typical project involves about 30-50 employees. These companies need a lot of agility and speed of development to respond to a rapidly changing marketplace, but also need high-quality software to avoid large financial losses from software defects. Your President asks you to investigate the potential of adopting Agile Methods to improve agility and speed without large loss of quality.

Use the internet, UC libraries, and other sources of information to prepare a pro-and-con table of bulleted items summarizing the advantages and difficulties of Agile Methods in this regard. For each bulleted item, append a referenced quotation from one of your sources substantiating the bulleted item.

Grading criteria will include the number and relevance of the bulleted items, and the number and diversity of sources quoted.

Submission Guidelines:
Please bring two hard copies of the assignment to class with your name printed at the top of the page.