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1 I’m not the first Agile advocate to discuss the analogy between climbing and Agile development. Jim Highsmith made a similar analogy in his 2000 book, Adaptive Software Development: A Collaborative Approach to Managing Complex Systems (Highsmith 2000).

2 www.agilealliance.org

3 Historically database and data warehouse testing has lacked the rigor, discipline, and automation that have benefited software development efforts (www.ambysoft.com/surveys/dataQualitySeptember2006.html).

4 www.agilemanifesto.org/principles.html

5 For a great survey of the various Agile flavors I highly recommend reading Agile Software Development Ecosystems (Highsmith 2002).

6 The detailed results are available at www.ambysoft.com/surveys/.

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