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A Framework for Agile Development

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A Framework for Agile Development June 2008
This month I had the opportunity to teach a class at a government contractor on the West Coast.These folks were responsible for writing mission critical software that had to work correctly or else very bad things could happen. I Featured Articlequickly saw that the class was composed of bright and experienced software engineers who worked through about four and half days material in less than three days. We even had time to talk about CM patterns and release management.  With such a great class, I naturally asked them if they were using Agile practices.  They were not. I spoke about the benefits of continuous integration which was well received but overall they were used to a very disciplined software development framework that was most definitely not Agile. What frustrated me most is that I did not have a solid framework to point them to in order to really get them interested in Agile.

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