6 Stages of the Agile Software Development Lifecycle

Agile software development emphasizes flexibility, iterative delivery, collaboration, and continuous improvement to help teams adapt to changing requirements and release higher-quality products. Its lifecycle begins with planning, where stakeholders define the product concept, market needs, scope, requirements, milestones, communication processes, and a prioritized backlog, followed by development in short two-to-four-week sprints supported by daily stand-ups. Testing occurs continuously alongside development, often using automation to identify defects efficiently, while deployment prepares the product, documentation, installation materials, and user acceptance feedback for release. Maintenance involves monitoring performance, addressing defects, collecting feedback across user channels, and keeping the software relevant over time, whereas retirement requires notifying users, migrating their data to replacement systems, and gradually ending support to reduce churn. Agile differs from DevOps in that Agile organizes incremental development and customer feedback, while DevOps unifies development and operations through automation, monitoring, and continuous delivery; teams can select approaches such as Scrum, Kanban, XP, Lean Agile, or Feature-Driven Development according to their project needs.

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