Comparative Analysis of Agile Development and Traditional Development

As the requirements of engineering projects become more and more stringent, traditional development methods have gradually been unable to meet the requirements of many engineering projects, so agile development has emerged. However, although agile development is very flexible in responding to requirements, it ignores important documents and lacks overall planning., resulting in difficulty in maintenance and lack of stability during development. Therefore, this article focuses on analyzing the advantages and disadvantages of agile development and traditional development, and combines Scrum to tools, so that the developed projects can better meet the needs, be more efficient, be more maintainable and more stable. Both have their own applicable scenarios, and the two can complement each other and hybrid development. This paper finds that agile development has obvious advantages in responding quickly to changes and improving team collaboration, but insufficient documentation and weak planning capabilities may affect later maintenance; traditional development relies on stability and documentation. Advantages, but poor adaptability to changes in requirements limits development efficiency. Based on this, this paper proposes a hybrid development strategy that combines the advantages of the two. Using agile flexibility and traditional standardization complementation can improve development efficiency and stability. In addition, combining agile tools (such as Scrum, and Kanban) with traditional requirements analysis and documentation processes can optimize the management and standardization of the development process. In the end, it provided a new methodology for the software development industry and proposed adaptive research directions for different project sizes and industries.