Report on Methodologies Used in Software Development

Assessment Type: Report

This is your assignment for this module. It is worth 20% of your overall grade for this module.
This is an INDIVIDUAL piece of work contributing towards the module assessment. Evidence of plagiarism or collusion will be taken seriously, and University regulations followed. You are advised to be familiar with the University definitions of plagiarism and collusion.
Please ensure to use Turnitin to check your work and that your similarity score is not more than 20%.

Assignment Brief

You are working in a software development company as an analyst, and they have assigned you to prepare a report for the methodologies used in software development. Here is a chance for you to outshine and produce a report of the various methodologies and come up with effective solution to meet the needs of the organizations. Your report should be a minimum of 1,500 words.

1. Identify the various agile approaches and the conventional software engineering approaches methodologies used in the software development process.
2. Explain with specific examples, the key features of the identified agile approaches and the software engineering methodologies with regards to its usage in commercial organizations.
3.Compare and contrast between the identified agile approaches and the software engineering methodologies with regards to its usage in commercial organizations.
4. Discuss the range of tools and techniques available in agile approaches (SCRUM) to analyse, design and develop a full-fledged web application with examples.
5. Evaluate the impact of agile approaches and the conventional software engineering methodologies with regards to its usage in the various organizations with examples.

Instructions
You are required to write a formal report consisting of the following elements: cover page, table of content, headings and sub-headings for the main area of the report, references and appendix (to include any information you may think are necessary addition to the report.

You are also required to consult and show evidence of literature within your report in the form of in-text citations and a suitable references list. It is important also to ensure you constantly use Turnitin to ensure your Turnitin score is suitable to avoid any academic misconduct.

Marking Scheme

	Marking Criteria	Mark
	Evidence of appropriate research using journals, websites, videos, blogs etc	10
	Appropriate discussion of the methodologies	20
	Evidence of appropriate usage of tools and techniques	30
	Appropriate comparison and evaluation with examples	20
	Appropriate use of citations and references using Harvard style of referencing	10
	Appropriate document writing and presentation using suitable headings and sub-headings	10