ADAPTIVE SOFTWARE
DEVELOPMENT
Group 1
GROUP MEMBERS
• Sadia Nadeem 2020-CS-03
• Sheikh Hanan Ali 2020-CS-07
• Khadija Azeem 2020-CS-09
• Ali Raza 2020-CS-37
• Fatima Abid 2020-CS-61
• Hamna Rehman 2020-CS-77
• Numan Subhani 2020-CS-80
WHAT IS ADAPTIVE SOFTWARE
DEVELOPMENT (ASD)?
• Adaptive Software Development is one of the
agile methodologies.
• Jim Highsmith published Adaptive Software
Development in 2000.
• Adaptive Software Development is a method to
system.
• ASD focuses on human collaboration and self-
• As with other Aglie methods, ASD is used to make teams
more adaptable to changing customer demand,
requirements and market needs.
FLOW MODEL OF ASD
• The framework has three development lifecycle phases:
• Speculation
• Collaboration
• Learning
SPECULATION
• During this phase project is initiated and planning is conducted.
• We get information about the project from the product owner
(customer) like project requirements, user needs, customer
mission statement, etc, to define set of release cycles that the
project wants.
COLLABORATION
• In this phase that the actual development
begins.
• In project management, a collaborative
environment invites the team to work as one to
produce the desired result.
• Collaboration or the collaborative
environment is the only genuine way through
which we can achieve the desired result.
LEARNING
• The Learn part of the Lifecycle is vital for
the success of the project.
• Input from customer.
• Both, the developers and customers
examine their assumptions and use the
results of each development cycle to learn
the direction of the next.
• The team learns :
• About product changes
• More fundamental changes in underlying
assumptions about how the products are
being developed
WHERE CAN YOU USE ASD?
• ASD is beneficial in businesses where the priority is on rapid delivery of
products, services, and values.
• This process requires consistent improvement of the product
features with changing times..
• It follows a user-centric approach that helps design more intuitive
software that caters to user needs.
• It requires a lot of user involvement, which is tough to achieve. ASD is
better suited for single projects.
CHARACTERISTICS OF ADAPTIVE
SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT
• There are six major characteristics of the ASD lifecycle.
• Mission focused
• Feature based
• Iterative
• Timeboxed
• Risk driven
• Change tolerant
• Mission focused:
This is important that the project that you overtake guides the mission of the
client business. Mission statements are to be guided to encourage exploration
and provide boundaries for development instead of a clear direction. With a clear
mission statement, it becomes essential for the team to reflect on a solution that
earns great results.
• Feature based:
ASD is a feature-based solution system, it doesn’t revolve around tasks.
Features are the functionalities that are developed during the iteration for
customer’s priorities. They can evolve after a few iterations and they need to
be worked on properly. Documents like user manuals, instruction manuals,
etc. are all part of the features.
• Iterative:
Adaptive Software Development is based on iterative
processes. The new features are added in each iteration. It
emphasizes successive deliveries to get feedbacks and add new
features .
• Timeboxed:
Time boxed in the ASD process refers not to use time
deadlines incorrectly rather it is about setting fixed delivery
times for iterations and projects.
• Risk Driven:
In Adaptive Software Development, in each iteration new
challenges come and the process aims to solve high-risk
items/activities quickly. So in this, the adaptive iterations are
identified and analyzed with critical risks and also evaluated as
well.
• Change tolerant:
As we discussed Adaptive Software Development is based on
constant change, re-evaluation, and evolving products with
lightweight planning and continuous learning. So this process
takes continuous changes as an advantage and welcomes it. It
does not make changes as problems rather it takes the
changes as new challenges.
WHAT ARE THE STRENGTH AND
WEAKNESS OF ASD?
• ASD strength include:
• Focused on the end users, which can lead to better and
more intuitive products
• Allows for on-time and even early delivery
• Encourages more transparency between developers and
clients
• ASD’s weaknesses include:
• Demands extensive user involvement, which
can be difficult to facilitate
• Integrates testing into every stage, which can
add to a project’s costs
• Emphasis on rapid iterating and continuous
feedback can lead to scope creep.
COMPARISON OF ASD WITH XP AND
SCRUM
Adaptive software
Development
Extreme
Programming
Scrum
•> A culture of
adaption,Mission driven,
Encourage
Collaboration,Time
Boxing.
•> Customer Driven
Development, Daily
Builds,Max 2 weeks for
one increment.
•> Independent,Self
orginizg, Self managing
team, 30 days cycle.
•> Organization surve
the purpose of adaptive
system which encourage
planning or
determinaton.
•> Refactoring- The
system gets constantly
redesigned to
accommodate change
and to improve
responsiveness.
•> Replacing old way of
defined and repeatable
software development
with the new product
development view of
Scrum.
CONT…..
ASD
XP
Scrum
ASD has more to do
with concepts and
culture over actual
software development.
Less importance or
Though there is a
attention to overall view detailed specification
and management.
for the seamless
execution of 30-day
cycle, integration and
acceptance tests are
not detailed.
ADAPTIVE SOFTWARE
DEVELOPMENT
PROS AND CONS
Pros (Advantages)
Some advantages of Adaptive Software Development :
• Useful for rapid and complex software product development.
• Easy software incremental adjustment
• Focus on end-users, meeting requirements, and fulfilling
demands
• Allows on-time delivery with maximum customer satisfaction
CONT…..
• Provides high transparency between developers and clients.
• Reduced vulnerabilities and bugs as undergoes multiple testing.
CONS
Cons(Disadvantages)
Some disadvantages of Adaptive Software Development :
• Working in an uncertain environment is challenging
• Proceeding only with mission needs broad exploration and
constant focus
• Requires high user/client involvement
• Requires testing into each iteration which increases the cost
CONT…..
• Frequent changes undergo with less documentation
• Requires strict time commitment between different teams
involved in project
CONCLUSION
• To sum it all up, the ASD Model is an ideal methodology for the
development of complex software and systems .
• One of the benefits of an ASD Model is its change-oriented
lifecycle which allows teams to explore and deviate from plans
without fear of failing, since things can be easily changed
anytime throughout the developmentprocess.
• This also provides high transparency between developers and
clients due to the constant communication process that is
encouraged by the ASD Model
• one of its drawbacks is less documentation that create problem
for new team member.
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