AGILE SOFTWARE AND SAAS TRAINING DEVELOPMENT

Since eXtreme Application Development, Learning Models, and Risk Management, was published in 2006 XP, has gone mainstream. The term XP has been superseded by the expression “Agile development” which this paper uses. While the original paper explained business drivers, and challenges XP presents to training development, this article focuses on SaaS training development throughout the Agile software development lifecycle. Today’s workplace requires organizations to adapt their strategies and operational practices often with fewer resources. As a result, most software development teams practice some version of Agile development methods. This white paper explains how training developers can align their design, development, and value-add to Agile SaaS development.

eXtreme Programming, or XP, gained popularity in the late 1990’s. Its evangelists in the developer community see XP as a way to eliminate barriers to productivity. This article explains XP and the business drivers that make XP an attractive model for developing and deploying HRIS, CRM, SAP, and other enterprise applications. As a paradigm for enterprise application development, XP represents risks for a training organization and challenges training developers expecting to apply the ADDIE analyze, design, develop, implement and evaluate model. XP requires corporate universities and development organizations to reconfigure how they design and develop performance solutions because it changes some of the traditional design and development cycles in software development.