Agile or Rigorous OO Methodologies: Getting the Best of Both Worlds

Posted December 31, 2001 | Technology |

Agile, or lightweight, OO methodologies appear to offer a new approach to building software. They appeared a few years ago as a reaction to the perceived "heaviness" of some of the more "rigorous" OO methodologies existing at that time. While proponents of each extreme are adamant about the rightness of their cause, is it possible that each, in being right, is only right in certain specialized conditions?

About The Author

Brian Henderson-Sellers

Brian Henderson-Sellers is director of the Centre for Object Technology Applications and Research and Professor of Information Systems at University of Technology, Sydney (UTS). He is author of 11 books on object technology and is well known for his work in OO methodologies (MOSES, COMMA, OPEN, OOSPICE) and in OO metrics. He has been a member of the official OMG review team for both UML and SPEM. In July 2001, Professor Henderson-Sellers was… Read More

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Agile or Rigorous OO Methodologies: Getting the Best of Both Worlds

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