Statistics: (383 Views) (0 Comments) Posted by: Adrian Marchis on Wednesday, November 14, 2007 Categories: Requirements Analysis (BABOK KA), SDLC, Process, and Methodologies, Agile Methods

One of the unfortunate aspects of industry-level paradigm shifts, such as what we're seeing with the move to agile software development, is that the followers of the incumbent paradigm often get to set the tone of the conversation. A perfect example of this is that traditionalists will often claim that agile approaches are riskier than traditional approaches when in fact practice shows that the exact opposite is true. With this newsletter I intend to turn the tables on traditionalists by summarizing the inherent risks in their preferred approaches to modeling.

Author: Scott W. Ambler