How Old Is Agile Development?
Reading the following lines, it should be crystal clear to every professional that the text refers to some sort of Agile Development:
[..] we consider the design process as a recursive operation taking place in increments of, say, weeks. That is, after each increment, we aim at having a finished product [..]. In other words, we consider the product as always, from the very first few weeks onward, to be in the hands of users. A version of the product is always finished and available for use.
Now, how old is this quote? Certainly not more than ten years, that would have been my guess. Probably from the early XP days? Actually, the quote is from 1977‘s august edition of IEEE Computer. Interesting, isn’t it?
Hello again!
Welcome to my new blog!
After almost 4 years of blogging at blog.misto.ch, I needed a change. The posting frequency constantly dropped and I’ve picked up twitter to post shorter messages, and most of the serious work I did ended up on InfoQ.
So, why even bother blogging anymore? Well, I’ll soon start my masters project and I want to have a platform to communicate about it ((If you’re curious, and as you’ve probably already guessed, I’ll bring automated refactoring support to Scala! But more on that in the following days.)). I also feel (or rather hope) that this might interest a broader audience, thus the switch over to english and – in the wake of all these changes – also a fresh design ((That, as I just realized today, also matches the color scheme of our bathroom.)) ((Aren’t these footnotes pretty?)).
And now, some rules for this blog:
- Comments are to be written in English or they’ll get deleted.
- You may criticize my English (I’m all for improving my skills), but please only if you’re really sure and can back up your claim.
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