Executive Update

Agile Methods and Risk

Posted December 31, 2005 | Leadership |

All agile methods constitute a highly disciplined set of practices meant to accommodate the realities of change and flux in high-risk system development.

WHAT MAKES AGILE METHODS SO VALUABLE FOR HIGH-RISK PROJECTS?

From my perspective, agile methods have inculcated some risk-mitigation strategies for common risks into their techniques. Consider the following:

About The Author
Tim Lister
 Tim Lister is a Cutter Consortium Fellow and a member of Arthur D. Little's AMP open consulting network. He is also a frequent keynoter and moderator of the ADL Summit, powered by Cutter. Mr. Lister, who has more than 40 years of professional software development experience, consults, trains, and lectures at enterprises worldwide. He assists IT organizations in tailoring methodologies and selecting tools for software development groups to… Read More
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