Dynamic systems development method

[1][2] First released in 1994, DSDM originally sought to provide some discipline to the rapid application development (RAD) method.

At the same time the new DSDM manual recognised the need to operate alongside other frameworks for service delivery (esp.

Many major corporations were very interested in the possibilities but they were also concerned that they did not lose the level of quality in the end deliverables that free-flow development could give rise to The DSDM Consortium was founded in 1994 by an association of vendors and experts in the field of software engineering and was created with the objective of "jointly developing and promoting an independent RAD framework" by combining their best practice experiences.

[10] The Agile Business Consortium is a not-for-profit, vendor-independent organisation which owns and administers the DSDM framework.

The roles are: Within DSDM a number of factors are identified as being of great importance to ensure successful projects.

DSDM can be considered as part of a broad range of iterative and incremental development frameworks, especially those supporting agile and object-oriented methods.

These include (but are not limited to) scrum, extreme programming (XP), disciplined agile delivery (DAD), and rational unified process (RUP).