What are the benefits of Agile Modeling?
The benefits of AM are: • Cost effectiveness. AM defines a collection of values, principles and practices pertaining to effective, light-weight modeling and documentation. By creating models and documents which are just barely good enough you maximize stakeholder ROI. • It defines explicit techniques for agile projects. AM addresses the issue of how agile developers model and document on software projects taking an agile approach such as eXtreme Programming (XP), Dynamic Systems Development Method (DSDM), or SCRUM. To quote Kent Beck from eXtreme Programming Explained (XPE) “We will continually refine the design of a system, starting from a very simple beginning. We will remove any flexibility that doesn’t prove useful.” Contrary to the claims of some of XP’s detractors you do in fact invest time modeling when taking an XP approach, but only when you have no other choice. Sometimes it is significantly more productive for a developer to draw some bubbles and lines to think through an id
