A study on the growth of Agile methods in India till 2014

In the last decades, we had sequential and phased software development models like the Waterfall model, Spiral model, etc., now today we have more iterative and incremental methods in form of Agile methods. The journey of Agile methods has come across a long way in world´s software community after their development in the year 2001. These methods have been given a new edge to the software development and new dimensions of software products. Agile methods are now almost at peak because of their use not only in the field of software development, but also in every other field. World´s CMM level 5 companies are using Agile methods and some are now coming forward to adopt agile methods and principles. But in India these methods are still a big word for some large as well as small companies. This paper is an attempt to trace out the current status and growth of agile methods in India from 2001 to 2014 and of happenings in social media about Agile methods.