Looking back at Agile Methodology

Went to an Agile Seminar and here are my thoughts

• This is little doubt that Agile Methodology has been accepted as a Software Methodology for Team of 1-10 programmers working together at a site.

• Software thinkers are still thinking who to make it work for distributed teams and very large teams(1000 + developers)

• Agile Methodology solved the waterfall’s lack of user feedback problem and RUP’s heavy documentation.

In the Agile Seminar, there was a very interesting exercise. Speaker wanted to demonstrate flaws of rigid process vs. flexible/lean process.


It didn’t go the speaker’s way. Deliverables of both processes were same. Result was a tie. What spoiled the exercise was the fact that customer gave very complex requirements.