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Have you ever considered that the industry doesn't move as quickly as everybody thinks? XP and Scrum both appeared in 1996--yep, over a decade ago. Officially, the agile movement officially began in February 2001 with the Agile Manifesto. At Pragmatic Marketing, we've been advocating a more agile approach to product planning for years and now--Holy Tipping Point, Batman!--agile is now finally a hot topic at many companies.
If you need to get up to speed, Scott Sehlhorst offers this series of articles on agile. Or bring your developer with you to our next Requirements That Work session.
Great results with agile > potential pitfall
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Bill Ivers
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2008-01-10 12:56 PM
If you have an active roadmap, or rather need an active roadmap, agile can help produce a lot of enhancement requests for your customers and stay ahead in the marketplace. I haven't found that quality suffers.
I do find that developers gravitate to the business need in an agile environment and that's always a good thing. However, I will warn against a potential pitfall - developers running with design, and running, and running. Daily scrums are designed to prevent this, but don't be surprised if you get to your next monthly demo to see a big design change that, from your perspective, won't work.
Lock down your designs in your agile development efforts early and enjoy the success.
I do find that developers gravitate to the business need in an agile environment and that's always a good thing. However, I will warn against a potential pitfall - developers running with design, and running, and running. Daily scrums are designed to prevent this, but don't be surprised if you get to your next monthly demo to see a big design change that, from your perspective, won't work.
Lock down your designs in your agile development efforts early and enjoy the success.
Agile
Remember, change is a process, not an event. :-)
Saeed