Martin Fowler has updated his paper “The New Methodology” about Agile Methods. I think key to this is his comment that programmers are responsible professionals and not “plug compatible programming units” and are the people best able to decide how to do their technical work.
He concludes by saying a decision to adopt an agile method should be down to the people, and if they aren’t interested in working in this way, the results aren’t likely to be great.
For an agile method to be successful you need to make people happy, and recognise that people are different and have different approaches to their work, but still need to communicate freely without feeling intimidated. The method you adopt should depend on the people on your project more than the technical nature of the project.
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