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- Emergence of requirements causes the essential system to emerge. Time and effort aren't consumed analyzing and building parts of the system that may never be used or deliver little business value. [PDF Version] |
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- Although the initial quality of a software design is important, software designs suffer more from lack of continuous care than they do from poor initial design. Lack of continuous care allows a good design to degrade over time, whereas a dedication to continuous care will correct a poor initial design. [PDF Version] |
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- The word "analysis" has taken on many different meanings in the software industry. This paper describes the history and etymology of the term as it evolved through the last half of the twentieth century. The paper goes on to describe the definition of analysis in agile software development; i.e. |
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- Agile processes handle the complexity of technology projects through self-organization. Rather than management telling the teams how to do their work, the teams self-organize to figure out the work on their own [PDF Version]. |
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- There is no opposite to "agile" just as there is not opposite to "Bengal tiger"; "agile" just declares a focus of attention. In this article, Alistair Cockburn considers other project characteristics on which a team might focus their attention, and discusses why agility / predictability / repeatability remains a "would-be." [PDF Version] |
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