[PIGMI] I dont get it.

[Doug]

It's relatively easy to pickup a tiny bit of Agile without really doing much
and improve your productivity (eg. start doing scrum meetings, product
backlog).

When you compare that to basically any of the formal methods (major time /
effort investment), or traditional methods (waterfall = fail), it seems like
a good idea.

On the down side, once you've reached the low hanging fruit it requires
dedicated professional project management to keep agile running smoothly;
and I've seen agile / scrum / extreme programming limp along vaguely a few
times because people think a tiny bit of project management is enough to get
you by. It's not.

Personally I'd recommend the Personal Software Process to improve individual
productivity, and then the Team Software Process (
http://www.sei.cmu.edu/tsp/) if that works out for you; largely because it's
not complicated and its easy to get started *and *then to scale that up to
1) more people and 2) bigger projects. Although the former is true of agile
stuff, I'm not convinced it is of the latter.

~
Doug.

On Thu, Mar 3, 2011 at 10:55 AM, Andy Hawkins <andyhawkins at ozemail.com.au>wrote:

> Not wanting to troll here, but I get an email every now and then from Agile
> groups and I'm trying to figure out what's the attraction?
>
> There seems to be a whole world of Agile enthusiasts and evangelists out
> there wanting me to join "the club".
>
> Maybe I'm misinformed, but Agile is just software project management for
> me, nothing else.  It's just a tool.  Why are there so many people going ga
> ga over it?
>
> Andy H.
> _______________________________________________
> PIGMI mailing list - http://pigmi.org/ - pigmi at pigmi.org
> Unsubscribe: http://lists.pigmi.org/listinfo.cgi/pigmi-pigmi.org
>
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://lists.pigmi.org/pipermail/pigmi-pigmi.org/attachments/20110303/ef500a2e/attachment.htm>