Balancing agility and discipline
by Barry W. Boehm · first published 2003
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Happy to see people questioning agile. There are two books which the skeptics might find interesting: * Agile, the good bad and ugly by Bertrand Meyer * Balancing agility and discipline by Boehm
on “The State of Agile Software in 2018” ↗…as a craft and to focus on the people, as opposed to treating development as a production line. Some good readings on the subject: Extreme Programming Explained, Agile Software Development Ecosystems, Balancing Agility and Discipline.
on “Warning Signs that Agile Is Declining” ↗I suggest Accelerate, Balancing Agility and Discipline, The Phoenix Project and the OG Continuous Delivery book by Jez Humble and David Farley.
on “De-siloing incident management: make reliability engineering everyone's job” ↗…Software Process" (Willis et al. 1998) "An Economic Release Decision Model: Insights into Software Project Management" (Grady 1999) "What We Have Learned About Fighting Defects" (Shull et al. 2002) Balancing Agility and Discipline: A Guide for the Perplexed (Boehm and Turner 2004) I only have one of these (Dunn), and it's boxed up in the attic, so I can't readily check their sources, but I somehow doubt that all of these simply…
on “The “bugs are 100x more expensive to fix in production” study might not exist” ↗…Software Process” (Willis et al. 1998), “An Economic Release Decision Model: Insights into Software Project Management” (Grady 1999), “What We Have Learned About Fighting Defects” (Shull et al. 2002), and Balancing Agility and Discipline: A Guide for the Perplexed (Boehm and Turner 2004). Joel on Software also has a convincing narrative on the subject. Therefore I'm not in a big hurry to replace the image, though I will put it on my…
on “Professional Software Development” ↗It really depends on the kind of project you're working on. Some modern Agile authorities (see Balancing Agility and Discipline: A Guide for the Perplexed) will tell you that you should tailor the process to your specific requirements. They would never recommend that you use XP for the development of life-critical software that…
on “Warning Signs that Agile Is Declining” ↗