Agile Software Development: True Adoption or Just a Label?

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  12 years ago

  by martinig

  Franco Martinig

  , Switzerland

  Joined 19 years ago

  In the analysis about a recent survey on agile adoption (http://www.methodsandtools.com/dynpoll/oldpoll.php?Agile2), there is the fear that as agility is now becoming "trendy", we may see a number of organizations that will qualify now themselves as "agile", without implementing the essence of the agile software development practices. Has anybody see some signs of such situation?

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  12 years ago

  by joe90

  J Alan

  , United Kingdom

  Joined 15 years ago

  Do you mean agile equating to gung-ho? ... or simply some of the agile tools being used (like unit testing) as 'proof' of an agile world?

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  12 years ago

  by martinig

  Franco Martinig

  , Switzerland

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  I don't know what you mean by "gung-ho", but what I mean is a situation where declare themselves "agile" because it is the politically correct answer. Using unit testing is already a good thing, but the situation is more that companies would send some people to a 3 days XP training and then declare themselves "agile".

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  12 years ago

  by joe90

  J Alan

  , United Kingdom

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   [quote]send some people to a 3 days XP training and then declare themselves "agile".[/quote]

  Tantamount to doing a .Net course and proclaiming yourself to be .Net proficient... ridiculous IMHO. Takes a lot more than a training course to prove you're capable of doing anything - its total window dressing. 
  

  Besides, XP (Kent Beck) is only one of the many varieties of "agile" methodologies out there at the moment.
  

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