RE: [AM] Agile modeling for e-business

At 07:12 PM 2/23/2004, you wrote:
>" why e-business would be any different when it comes to AM " (Scott Ambler)
>
>It's not the difference, but how extreme it is... e-business always 
>evolves at a very fast pace, it always brings great impact on business, 
>which on the other hand is changing everyday these days. And to make it 
>worst (or better) technology changes fast & everyday as well.

AM is a very good option in these sorts of environments.



>Agile Modeling seems to be the best answer to this (as it uses business to 
>drive the project... as it matches project execution against business 
>goals... as it builds the plan in phases - re-evaluating, re-prioritizing, 
>re-planning).

"Best" answer might not always be right depending on the situation, 
although I suppose I could live with that.  ;-)

Very good option might be a better way to think about it.


>So my question is is there any "real case" paper about applying agile 
>modeling to e-business?


I wrote up a case study in March/April 2002 issue of IEEE software that you 
might be able to dig up.  It was for an dot com company.


>  Does it measure & scale?

See http://www.agilemodeling.com/essays/agileArchitecture.htm and 
www.agiledata.org/essays/enterpriseArchitecture.html for some ideas.



>  Where does agility start & chaos end in this edge scenarios?

If you follow the practices you should be ok.


>  How does local culture (latin people for instance) impact on how we 
> react to chaos control or transform it on agility towards reaching the 
> project goals?

The culture of your team must support teamwork, sharing, and mutual learning.

- Scott

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