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Posted by Andrew on 27 August 2014 02:25 PM
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I was reading a great code-rant on Agile Software Development, the sensationally titled Why Agile has failed! and stumbled upon the Agile Software Development manifesto. What is Agile? Well, the above article demonstrates what it is not. It’s not this: ![]() Agile by Dilbert: http://dilbert.com/ Curiously, I’ve never read the Agile Software Development manifesto before, but here it is. It’s 4 lines:
Are you doing this in your organisation? It’s certainly something we are striving to do! Sometimes successfully, sometimes unsuccessfully. Hopefully,we are getting better as time goes on. How do we ‘do Agile’?A few months ago we wrote an article on How we Handle Support & the Roadmap. In it we said:
When I re-read this, its closer to the Agile Software Development Manifesto (and further from Dilbert-Agile) than I first realised!
How we implement …Individuals and InteractionsWe promote direct interaction between customer and developers. In our teams we strive to communicate with each other, and share knowledge rapidly to best solve a problem. Working Software over Comprehensive DocumentationWe prefer to document by example, and iterate fast on features and improvements. By delivering fixes to you via a NuGet Nightly Build you can sometimes get the features and bug fixes you need within 24-hours! Guess what though, we don’t have a 250 page PDF user-manual, although we do have a living, growing KnowledgeBase. Customer CollaborationDid you know some of our customers submit fixes or improvements to the source which we include in the build? We work closely with customers to ensure they get what they want and we collaborate directly with you to create SciChart. Responding to ChangeSometimes a feature has to be backed out, sometimes a deadline has to move. Sometimes it just can’t be done. Sometimes, it all needs to be dropped, and something else needs to be done instead! We are not rigid. You have to have a plan, sure, but you have to be ready to tear it up too.
So, hopefully, we are more agile than we first thought | |