Database Refactoring – Database Connect

You learned in A Vision for the Agile Data Method that agile methodologies such as eXtreme Programming (XP) (Beck 2000) and DSDM (Stapleton 2003) take an iterative and incremental approach to software development. Application developers on XP and DSDM projects typically forsake big design up front (BDUF) approaches in favor of emergent approaches where the design of a system evolves throughout the life of the project. On an agile development project the final design often isn’t known until the application is ready to be released. This is a very different way to work for many experienced More >