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LECTURE 2
History – the Agile Manifesto
2001 – Kent Beck and 16 other noted software developers, writers and consultants (referred to as “Agile Alliance”) signed the “Manifesto for Agile Software Development.”
Agile methods –developed to overcome perceived and actual weaknesses in conventional software engineering.
It can provide important benefits, but is not applicable to all projects, product, people, and situations.
Manifesto Defined
MANIFESTO. A solemn declaration, by the constituted authorities of a nation, which contains the reasons for its public acts towards another.
-Dictionary.net
Manifesto for Agile Software Development
We are uncovering better ways of developing...
Waterfall Model
Spiral Mo...

What is Software Engineering?
is the application of a systematic, disciplined, quantifiable approach to the development, operation, and maintenance of software, and the study of these approaches; that is, the application of engineering to software.
Engineering
is the science, discipline, art and profession of acquiring and applying technical, scientific and mathematical...
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Tacoma Narrows Bridge collapse in 1940. It is one of the classic civil engineering project failure: there were aerodynamic problems, and there were structural problems due to the size of the supports, and there were other problems that combined to cause a distinctive resonance which gave the bridge its distinctive “gallop.”
But one of the most important lessons we took...