Topic: Agile management
In Balancing Agility and Discipline: A Guide for the Perplexed, authors Barry Boehm and Richard Turner suggest the following guidelines for choosing an adaptive or a predictive approach to any given project:
| Agile home ground | Plan-driven home ground |
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Since the book was published, Agile development practices have evolved considerably. As they have been adopted and adapted as enterprise practices, the criteria for choosing adaptive vs predictive development have changed. I think an updated list of guidelines might read as follows:
| Adaptive (Agile) | Predictive (Waterfall) |
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Please see the article When to be Agile for a more detailed presentation of these ideas.
Posted by Dave Nicolette
at 12:01 AM EST
