Using a day in the life of two development teams and ground-breaking case studies, they illustrate the differences and similarities between agile and plan-driven methods, and show that the best development strategies have ways to combine both attributes. The authors expose the bureaucracy and stagnation that mark discipline without agility, and liken agility without discipline to unbridled and fruitless enthusiasm.
Developers, pulled toward opposite ends by impassioned arguments, ultimately must learn how to give each value its due in their particular situations.īalancing Agility and Discipline sweeps aside the rhetoric, drills down to the operational core concepts, and presents a constructive approach to defining a balanced software development strategy.
The key to success is finding the right balance between the two, which will vary from project to project according to the circumstances and risks involved. Plan-driven developers must also be agile nimble developers must also be disciplined. Īgility and discipline: These apparently opposite attributes are, in fact, complementary values in software development.
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