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Exclusion, Assumptions, and Misinterpretation: Foes of Collaboration

by Lou Russell

It all started when I was reviewing the comments on an e-question posed by Martha Heller, executive Web editor of CIO magazine: "Would agile software development work in your shop?" As someone who is very interested in the practices and, more importantly, the philosophies of the agile approaches, I wanted to see what the consensus was. I personally have witnessed some surprisingly emotional responses from CIOs about the agile approaches: it would never work, it was just RAD, prototyping was a bad idea, pair programming was too expensive, and so on. I expected to see more of that. To my surprise, I read the following:

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Exclusion, Assumptions, and Misinterpretation: Foes of Collaboration December 2001

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