E-MailIs Design Still Dead?
Agile development has moved beyond its niche movement and an increasing number of organizations are adopting agile development for more projects. But regardless of its success, there are still many skeptics regarding its application to very large and/or complex systems. Many older developers and software managers are concerned about what some believe to be one of the major blind spots of agile development: the rejection of up-front design. This Executive Report by Ken Orr returns to a famous paper written by leading software guru Martin Fowler and revisits his major concerns about agile development and design, especially concerns about modeling -- the idea that the code is the design and that being close to the customer is enough to ensure success. The report concludes that design is alive and well, and that over the long run, the agile movement is going to need to consider amending its Agile Manifesto to incorporate the use of more automatic design/application-generation tools in order to meet the needs of the future.
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