Modelling in Agile Development
- by bertzzie
I'm writing a bachelor dissertation report where I'm developing a system with Agile methodology. Given that the development is an one man show, of course the "Agile" I did was not really agile at all (from my understanding at least).
So I want some perspective from SO crowds, who is of course a professional, real world, developer with tons of experience. I think real world experience is better than the theory and experiments that I did.
My question is:
Do we model during development time when using Agile? UML? DFD? Or a Functional Specification is enough1?
If modelling is not really necessary, what do we use to communicate to the user, as the user almost always won't understand UML or DFD? For my system, I use UI & UX Design with heavy prototyping, but then I don't have time to draw UML any more. Which one is better?
1 http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/fog0000000036.html
I hope the question's not "subjective and argumentative" as I know this question exist because of my lack of understanding in the agile development. If it is, could someone just give me a pointer or reference about that?
Possible duplicate: Do you use UML in Agile development practices?