AGILE DEVELOPMENT
& MYDIGITALSTRUCTURE 

mydigitalstructure.com is highly compatible with Agile development principles.

THE STEPS

1. Prototype the view first to get alignment with the customers use cases
2. Tweak the model for any structural enhancements required
3. Set up the controllers to bind the view to the model (mydigitalstructure.com)
4. Rapidly iterate to refine

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mydigitalstucture.com is a hosted enterprise focused RPC "REST" API, with over 700 methods for managing:

• Websites
• Contacts
• Actions/Activity (including time billing)
• Messaging (conversations, IMAP integration)
• Projects
• Documents
• Products, Orders & Stock
• Full Accounting with tax reporting.
  including full BAS and Payroll in Australia.

With full OAuth and OAuth2.0 support you can also extend the model into facebook, twitter, linkedin and other services/webapi's.

If you're familiar with the model-view-controller (MVC) framework you'll love mydigitalstructure.com and if not, it's a great way to get started.

Getting started

AGILE MANIFESTO

In February 2001, 17 software developers met at the Snowbird, Utah resort, to discuss lightweight development methods. They published the Manifesto for Agile Software Development to define the approach now known as agile software development. Some of the manifesto's authors formed the Agile Alliance, a nonprofit organization that promotes software development according to the manifesto's principles.

The Agile Manifesto reads, in its entirety, as follows:

We are uncovering better ways of developing software by doing it and helping others do it. Through this work we have come to value:

• Individuals and interactions over processes and tools
• Working software over comprehensive documentation
• Customer collaboration over contract negotiation
• Responding to change over following a plan

That is, while there is value in the items on the right, we value the items on the left more.

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MORE READING & TOOLS

• Agile & Iterative Development (book)
• seenowdo.com (digital taskboard for teams)
• Definition
• Example apps (for playing with)
• Agile meetups (meetup.com)
• Rapid Development: Taming Wild Software Schedules (Steve McConnell)
• Code Complete (Steve McConnell)
• Prototyping