One of the biggest challenges that agile development methods face is developers claiming to be following the method -- when in reality they aren't -- who then run into trouble and proceed to blame the method they weren't following properly to begin with. We're seeing this in the case of extreme programming (XP), where hackers choose to follow a subset of XP's practices, yet claim to be following all of XP's tenets.
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Scott W. Ambler is a Cutter Expert. He is the cocreator of the Disciplined Agile (DA) framework and thought leader behind the Agile Modeling and Agile Data methods, working with clients around the world to improve the way they develop software. Mr. Ambler is coauthor of several software development books, including An Executive’s Guide to Disciplined Agile, Disciplined Agile Delivery, Agile Modeling, The Elements of UML 2.0 Style, Agile Database… Read More
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