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#News(General) [ via IoTForIndiaGroup ]
Agile is one of the most common development methodologies — and one of the most commonly misimplemented. So it’s not surprising that the world of online programmers responded strongly to the release of an informative new document from the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) offering advice to managers on how to fine-tune their projects.
The Defense Department’s “Office of Prepublication and Security Review” had cleared the document, “Detecting Agile BS,” for release in October, but it finally went viral last week, attracting 2,975 upvotes on Reddit, and hundreds of comments from geeks around the world.
“One of the best government documents I’ve read,” wrote one user, adding “Take that as you will.”
Scope of the Problem
Its first sentence warns that because agile is a popular buzzword, “all DoD software development projects are, almost by default, now declared to be ‘agile.’”It identifies six signs that a project isn’t really using an agile development methodology — for example, a lack of collaboration, with even the end users “missing-in-action throughout development.” It recommends observing users at work, if not actually talking to them, or giving them prototypes for feedback. “At a minimum, they should be present during Release Planning and User Acceptance Testing.”
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