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In the software world, we like swinging. We are swinging from one way of working to another way of working--from one extreme to the other. Very young people are having their first swing and now they are agile. Middle age people (what a cute label) are right now swinging from the extreme of working with RUP to another extreme called Agile. We swing and our companies swing with us.
Today everyone is agile. Of course…everything else would be silly. Let me say it loud and clearly: I am a big fan of agile. My teams at Ericsson were extremely agile.
However, most people I talk to have a fuzzy understanding of what agile really is about. I participated in a panel discussion with agile evangelists in Wales last March. The organizers had hoped I would be against agile. They were surprised. The audience asked us to define agile.
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