RE: XP vs. "Traditional"

In a recent ACM issue there was a nice article about the different
dimensions along which a process can be oriented.

Agile methods align with a customer/client oriented dimension.  The article
was very good in highlighting that aligning with one or another dimensions
does not make the other dimensions disappear.

I also think that approaches can be mixed.  I don't very much believe in
either/or's.  It's not all black and white.

Of course, in order to make a mix and match you have to understand the
strong and weak points of all the approaches that you consider to be
candidates.

If you know only one approach, it will be tempting to say it's king of the
hill.  If you know none, the first one may look like a silver bullet.

I'd recommend to read a lot, talk a lot, and think a lot.  Hard data will be
hard to find because measurements in software engineering are for most
programming folks a synonym of evil.  Most people don't measure, and of
those who do, most people don't publish.  It shows for me the sorry state of
many software engineering approaches.

Stefan.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: davehane [mailto:[email protected]]
> Sent: Monday, March 31, 2003 10:22 PM
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: [XC] XP vs. "Traditional"
> 
> 
> Given that XP and other Agile methodologies have sweet spots in which 
> they can best be applied, does anybody know of work done that 
> attempts to quantify the advantages of XP over heavier methodologies 
> in an apples-to-apples comparion?.  
> 
> While one may know intuitively that the XP approach will 
> yield "better" results, convincing others can be quite another 
> story.  Having hard data to share can sometimes be helpful in this 
> regard.  
> 
> Not sure if this is the right place for this post, but thought that I 
> try here first.  
> 
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