Agile Software Process model

The article proposes a new software process model, ASP (Agile Software Process) based on a decade-long evolution of software process models inside a Japanese software factory. The Japanese software factory was a successful model in the development of quality software for large-scale business applications in the 1980s. However, the business climate of software development has dramatically changed in the last few years. Development cycle-time was promoted to one of the top issues of software development in the 1990s and then globalization appeared. A new paradigm of software development is required. The RSP model does not implicate any physical office but a virtual collaboration space over the Internet. It enables multiple small teams, which are geographically distributed, to concurrently develop multiple functions for a family of large-scale software systems