Analyzing the modes of communication in agile practices

Agile practices have grappled their importance for development of softwares in industries. Agile methods demand active communication with customers and team members to achieve the highest customer satisfaction. Effective communication is the need for building trust and discipline among the team members and customers. It has been observed in literature that active communication in communication hierarchy plays a vital role in improving design and quality of software. It reduces the project development time and cost of change of software. We have conducted a survey and analyzed the data based upon modes of communication. The investigation reveals that active communication may be important during primary and end level of agile communication iterative cycle whereas passive communication is highly useful at the mid-level of cycle. The importance of communication modes at various phases of software development has also been discussed in this paper.