Lessons From a Decade of Data: Part III -- Zhou Enlai's Perspective

by E.M. Bennatan

In this third and final Update in the series, we will discuss how the causes of project failure have changed and how those changes together with problems in project planning have guided software developers toward new agile development methods. We will see how other areas, such as testing and quality assurance, have also influenced the move toward agile, and we will consider whether Zhou Enlai would have waited more than 10 years to appreciate the effect of the turbulent software decade that has just ended.