Beck says, "Programming sometimes seems challenging but it flows. Every step forward makes the next step forward easier. Success builds on success." Gorman adds that "agile", "lean" and "evolutionary" are strategies that need to be properly understood and appropriately applied to any specific context. Thus, software teams need to harmonize practices, people, and software and this leads us to what is called Software Development Rhythms. In eXtreme programming explained, 2nd Edition Beck observes that rhythms operate at all different scale.

Lui (PhD) and Chan (PhD) define that software development rhythms (SDR) respects and builds upon the inherent flexibility of agile practices (e.g. pair programming, refactoring, test-driven development, stand-up meeting, plagiarism programming etc), focusing on understanding the "why and when" of the effective application of practice-move-practice or activity-move-activity.

Examples of Software Development Rhythm Kent Beck is the creator of Extreme Programming and is one of the founders of the Agile Manifesto. ... Agile software development is a conceptual framework for undertaking software engineering projects that embraces and promotes evolutionary change throughout the entire life-cycle of the project. ... Extreme Programming (XP) is a popular agile software development methodology used to implement software projects. ... Pair programming requires two software engineers to participate in a combined development effort at one workstation. ... Refactoring is the process of rewriting a computer program or other material to improve its structure or readability, while explicitly keeping its meaning or behavior. ... Test-Driven Development (TDD) is a software development technique that involves repeatedly first writing a test case and then implementing only the code necessary to pass the test. ... A stand-up in agile methods is a daily team meeting held to provide a status update to the team members. ...

• plan ~ do ~ check ~ act ~ plan ~ do ~ check ~ act ...
• pair programming ~ solo programming ~ pair programming ~ solo programming ...
• testing ~ coding ~ refactoring ~ testing ~ coding ~ refactoring ...
• test first programming ~ test last programming ~ test first programming ~ test last programming ...
• standardizing ~ tailoring ~ measuring ~ improving ~ tailoring ~ measuring ~ improving ...

The approach of software development rhythms is to answer the key question of whether programmer productivity is impacted by the various agile practices, rather than by any single software development method. PDCA (aka the Deming Cycle, Shewhart cycle, or Deming Wheel) is an iterative four-step quality control strategy. ... Pair programming requires two software engineers to participate in a combined development effort at one workstation. ... Look up test in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... Computer programming (often simply programming) is the craft of implementing one or more interrelated abstract algorithms using a particular programming language to produce a concrete computer program. ... Refactoring is the process of rewriting a computer program or other material to improve its structure or readability, while explicitly keeping its meaning or behavior. ... Capability Maturity Model (CMM) broadly refers to a process improvement approach that is based on a process model. ... Capability Maturity Model (CMM) broadly refers to a process improvement approach that is based on a process model. ... Capability Maturity Model (CMM) broadly refers to a process improvement approach that is based on a process model. ... Capability Maturity Model (CMM) broadly refers to a process improvement approach that is based on a process model. ...

See Also

• Software Development
• Agile Software Development
• Extreme programming
• Test-driven development
• Refactoring
• Pair programming

Software development is the translation of a user need or marketing goal into a software product. ... Agile software development is a conceptual framework for undertaking software engineering projects that embraces and promotes evolutionary change throughout the entire life-cycle of the project. ... Extreme Programming (or XP) is a software engineering methodology, the most prominent of several agile software development methodologies. ... Test-Driven Development (TDD) is a software development technique that involves repeatedly first writing a test case and then implementing only the code necessary to pass the test. ... Refactoring is the process of rewriting a computer program or other material to improve its structure or readability, while explicitly keeping its meaning or behavior. ... Pair programming requires two software engineers to participate in a combined development effort at one workstation. ...

Reference

• Lui, K.M. and Chan, K.C.C. (2008) Software Development Rhythms, John Wiley and Sons, ISBN 978-0-470-07386-5
• Beck, K. and Andres, C. (2005) Extreme Programming Explained: Embrace Change, Second Edition, Addison-Wesley, ISBN 0-321-27865-8
• Shewhart, Walter Andrew (1939). Statistical Method from the Viewpoint of Quality Control. New York: Dover. ISBN 0-486-65232-7. 

Kent Beck is the creator of Extreme Programming and is one of the founders of the Agile Manifesto. ... Walter Andrew Shewhart (March 18, 1891 - March 11, 1967) was a physicist, engineer and statistician, sometimes known as the father of statistical quality control. ...

External Links

• Beck, K., Leddy, J. and Wake, W.(2005) Cutting with the Grain: The Rhythms of Design, http://www.threeriversinstitute.org/Cutting%20with%20the%20Grain.pdf
• http://weblogs.java.net/blog/johnm/archive/2004/12/rhythms_in_soft.html
• http://softwareas.com/rhythms-in-software