Tuesday, August 08, 2006

Next Generation Agility

Here is a link to a great review of Sam Guckenheimer‘s new book on software engineering with VSTS written by my good friend Brad Appleton.

I would consider this book to be about the “next generation” of agile development. It has some things in it that pioneering agilists might reject as not agile enough. It’s realistic enough for the current times of scaling to larger enterprises and programs and architectures, while still able to meet the demands of CMMI and the needs of regulatory compliance (e.g. Sarbanes-Oxley). And, it does so by establishing the proper mind-set and an environment where the process and tools serve the practitioners instead of making them jump through hoops for the sake of process or metrics. Technorati tag: Agile, David+Anderson, MSF, Sam+Guckenheimer, Brad+Appleton