Mention one advantage and one disadvantage of Agile method ?
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Advantages of agile method
1) Customer satisfaction by rapid, continuous delivery of useful software.
2) People and interactions are emphasized rather than process and tools. Customers, developers and testers constantly interact with each other.
3) Working software is delivered frequently (weeks rather than months).
4) Face-to-face conversation is the best form of communication.
5) Close, daily cooperation between business people and developers.
Disadvantages of agile method:
1) In case of some software deliverables, especially the large ones, it is difficult to assess the effort required at the beginning of the software development life cycle.
2) There is lack of emphasis on necessary designing and documentation.
3) The project can easily get taken off track if the customer representative is not clear what final outcome that they want.
4)Only senior programmers are capable of taking the kind of decisions required during the development process. Hence it has no place for newbie programmers, unless combined with experienced resources.