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Table 3: Current state, documentation and practical experiences of AMs
Maturity
Documented
Adoption and Experience
XP
Active
Books, papers, web sites
Applied in practice
FDD
Active
Books, papers, web sites
Applied in practice
Agile Modeling
Still under
development
Book, papers, web sites
No evidence of applying
Extreme
Modeling
Still under
development
Web sites, papers
Applied to some extent
Scrum
Active
Book, web sites
Applied in practice
Adaptive SD
Active
Book, papers, web sites
Applied to some extent
Crystal family
Still under
development
Web sites, web documents
Applied to some extent
DSDM
Active
Book, web sites, papers
(limited to DSDM members)
Applied in practice
Table 4: Development process characteristics of Agile Methodologies
Process Support Iterative and
Incremental
Scalability - Size
of teams
Defi ned
Member
Roles
Modeling
Activities
XP
Development
practice
Yes
Up to 12
Yes
Minimized
FDD
Development and
partly management
process
Design and
build phases
From 50 up to 250
Yes
Minimized
Agile
Modeling
Modeling
Yes
No restrictions
Not detailed Complete
Extreme
Modeling
Development process Yes
No restrictions
N/A
Models are
executable and
testable
Scrum
Management process Yes
Up to 10 people
Yes
Not applicable
ASD
Management process Yes
No restrictions
Not detailed Not applicable
Crystal
family
Partly development
and management
process
Yes
From six (Clear) up
to 40 (Yellow)
Yes
Not applicable
DSDM
Management process Yes
Possibly many
small teams (from
two to six)
Yes
Not applicable
Modeling and Design in Agile Methods
In this section, the kind and nature of modeling and design support will be analyzed
in XP, FDD, Agile Modeling and Extreme Modeling, since they describe practices that are
related to modeling and architecture design, as shown in Table 5.
