AGILE IN ACTION

Monday, 12 December 2005

How not to do it: Agile development, Microsoft-style

Posted by Simon Baker

Randy Miller at Microsoft writes about his experiences with agile development.

Ken Schwaber comments about Trends in Scrum and Agile.

John Nolan makes some comments too.

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