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Showing posts with label Working Software vs Documentation. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Working Software vs Documentation. Show all posts

Thursday, February 6, 2014

How To Sell Agile (pt 2 of 2)

Continuing with Raja, from ProXL Consulting, and his seven reasons for using agile:

Video 3:  Reason 1. Ambiguous Requirements




Video 4:  Reason 2.  Requirements Changes are Inevitable




Watts Humphrey's Requirements Uncertainty Principle - "For a new software system, the requirements will not be completely known until after the users have used it."

Video 5:  Reason 3.  Big Upfront Planning is not practical




Video 6:  Reason 4.  Reviewing Working Software is Better Than Reviewing Documents




Video 7:  Reason 5.  Iterative and Incremental Developoment is better than Sequential Waterfall Development




Video 8:  Reasons 6 and 7.  Delivery through small baby steps is always better than a single huge delivery at project's end; and, Frequesnt reflection by the project team.