Technical Advise Week #4 - How Agile?

Some might say that I'm Agile & Lean (yes this is Max talking) while my sister (Mabel) is more traditional. Yet as I mature my stealth framework is starting to take on a more commonly thought of profile. In the systems world many of the sins of traditional methods, and their associated artificats, have been tweeked in order to deliver results. Agile methods take a similiar approach except the number one concern is delivery. These small incremental steps help to build confidence amongst the team and those that have an ownership interest in the final result. Thinning requires surgical precision, and a steady expert approach and this isn't always easy in those method based development companies. Dad was a perfect example that transitioning to a the Agile framework took time. His approach involve him looking at all of the various methods that he had worked with and understood, taking those elements and comparing them against the Agile paradigm, determining what the differences meant, what possible impact they had (whether they were sound and practical), and finally seeing if remedial measures had previously been exercised on those traditional methods in order to reach a similiar Agile conclusion. Once he had fully understood this, he hit his stride of understanding and endorsement of the methods. What is scary to Mabel and myself is that now he is off on a mission to convert some of those traditional aspects to an Agile framework (for example test estimation and overall project analytics). We are confident that he will be again successful in providing a solution set that will benefit the industry as a whole. How could he not succeed, look at who he is working with. Until next week, signing off as always... Max & Mabel, Sr. Technical Advisors.