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Wars have started as a consequence of misunderstandings or mistranslations during diplomatic negotiations between parties. The use of a word may appear quite innocent to one party, but when translated into the vocabulary of the other, the word may have connotations quite at odds with what was intended. Today, we are told, there is a "war" between the proponents of UML and those of the several agile processes.
Agility has become today's buzzword when describing a modern software process. Everyone is agile. An agile team is a nimble team able to appropriately respond to changes. Change is what software development is very much about [1].
If you pay heed to most of the articles and books that have been written on agile development, you probably wouldn't even consider attempting it on a mid- to large-sized project. All the experts seem to qualify their recommendations with something to the effect of, "This will only work for teams of 10-12 developers." Maybe they don't have to.
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