A lightweight methodology is a software development method that has only a few rules and practices, or only ones that are easy to follow. In contrast, a complex method with many rules is considered a "

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Adaptive Software Development Adaptive software development (ASD) is a software development process that grew out of the work by Jim Highsmith and Sam Bayer on rapid application development (RAD). It embodies the principle that continuous adaptation of the process to the work at ...

by Jim Highsmith, described in his 1999 book ''Adaptive Software Development'' *

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family of methodologies with

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Extreme Programming Extreme programming (XP) is a software development methodology intended to improve software quality and responsiveness to changing customer requirements. As a type of agile software development,"Human Centred Technology Workshop 2006 ", 2006, PD ...

(XP), promoted by people such as

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and Martin Fowler *

Feature Driven Development Feature-driven development (FDD) is an iterative and incremental software development process. It is a lightweight or Agile method for developing software. FDD blends a number of industry-recognized best practices into a cohesive whole. These pr ...

(FDD) developed (1999) by

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and

Peter Coad Peter Coad (born December 30, 1953) is a software entrepreneur and author of books on Computer programming, programming. He is notable for his role in defining what have come to be known as the UML colors, a color-coded Writing systems, notation c ...

ICONIX ICONIX is a software development methodology which predates both the Rational Unified Process (RUP), Extreme Programming (XP) and Agile software development. Like RUP, the ICONIX process is UML Use Case driven but more lightweight than RUP. ICONI ...

process, developed by Doug Rosenberg: An UML Use Case driven approach that purports to provide just enough documentation and structure to the process to allow flexibility, yet produce software that meets user and business requirements Most of these lightweight processes emphasize the need to deal with change in requirements and change in environment or technology by being flexible and adaptive.

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