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).<div><br></div><div>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.</div>
<div><br></div><div>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. <br>
<div><br></div><div>Personally I'd recommend the Personal Software Process to improve individual productivity, and then the Team Software Process (<a href="http://www.sei.cmu.edu/tsp/">http://www.sei.cmu.edu/tsp/</a>) if that works out for you; largely because it's not complicated and its easy to get started <i>and </i>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. </div>
<div><br></div><div>~</div><div>Doug.</div><div><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Mar 3, 2011 at 10:55 AM, Andy Hawkins <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:andyhawkins@ozemail.com.au">andyhawkins@ozemail.com.au</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">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?<br>
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There seems to be a whole world of Agile enthusiasts and evangelists out there wanting me to join "the club".<br>
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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?<br>
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Andy H.<br>
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