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Did you know that agilists are just as likely as traditionalists to write documentation?
Archive 2008-08-01 2008
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Of course it was easy to find agilists in large shops such as IBM, Motorola, Yahoo and other technology oriented places but couldn't identify much in the way of corporations whose primary business wasn't in technology.
From Incite comes Insight...: Agile Software Development for Fortune 100 Enterprises James McGovern 2005
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Quality: 29% of agilists prefer to deliver on time and on budget and 66% prefer to deliver high-quality, easy-to-maintain systems.
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Lean movement pioneered at Toyota was an inspiration to many of early agilists, but one should be wary of the engineering separation between design and construction.
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This may provide some insight into why many agilists are against defined processes - the majority of IT project teams are small, regardless of paradigm, so any previous experience with traditional and ad-hoc approaches would lead many people to believe that detailed processes are problematic if most of their project experiences were on small teams.
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The reason why agilists are more conservative when it comes to estimating their success rates might be because their success criteria are a bit more stringent:
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Coaching - is a must-have for every agilists bookshelf.
RubyCorner 2010
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Time/schedule: 62% of agilists prefer to deliver on time according to the schedule and 34% prefer to deliver when the system is ready to be shipped.
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Not only does she have the best Cold War Super Hero name of all the agilists she is a great speaker.
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Functionality: 15% of agilists prefer to build the system to specification and 82% prefer to meet the actual needs of stakeholders.
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