From Crisis Comes Opportunity
Several voices on the Web are suggesting that the looming financial crisis presents an opportunity for agile development methods due to the focus on providing business value early and embracing change.
ThoughtWorks has an entire whitepaper devoted to the topic – Recession News for CIOs [PDF, 660 KB]. Tim Bray has also written a series of essays under the On Tough Times banner. (Read ‘em all.) His first essay is A Good Time for Agility:
There was a time when you could propose a project that called for so many months of requirements evaluation, so many months of design, and then development and eventually deployment sometime next year. No longer. Anything even faintly smelling of the waterfall model is increasingly DOA.
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Someone needs to figure out some good contract structures to support outsourced agile development.
Well, that issue has been getting more attention lately:
- Vikas Hazrati posted an article on the Agile Contracts Working Group on InfoQ.
- Jeff Sutherland has some additional details on the working group.
- Serge Beaumont presented on Agile & Contracts at the Scrum gathering 2008 in Stockholm.
- Alistair Cockburn has been collecting ideas.
And there’s always Google: agile contracts
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