Wow, what an eye opener. The objective was to debate Agile vs. Non-agile development, but everyone that showed up (except one person who left early) was in complete agreement that some sort of Agile methodology was the way to go, and non-agile is out. Interestingly a short survey showed that most of those practicing agile were from a small shop, and not working in the Enterprise. This is probably a result of the fact that most large enterprises are pretty stubborn when it comes to changing development methodologies.
Opposite this session was one on using the "Joel Method" as defined by his Joel Test.
Tags: [Programming] [Microsoft] [PDC05]
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And meeting deadlines.
The Agile methodology is all about meeting deadlines with a good product. What often happens in non-agile development is the team keeps developing until "crunch time" then they chop things out that are not done and polish things up that really need more then superficial work. The result is a system that barely meets requirements and needs a lot more maintainence down the road.
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