Afterword

We hope we have provided you with the information and understanding needed to eliminate some of your perplexity regarding discipline and agility. The risk-based approach and analytic techniques presented are not “Yet Another Method,” but represent a way to structure your thinking and take advantage of your personal insight in balancing discipline and agility within your own local environment.

One cautionary note: The landscape of methods is geologically active and the geography is continuously changing. We encourage you to use some of the references in the appendices to stay in touch with both agile and plan-driven approaches as they adapt and evolve, and continuously question how that change could affect your organization and business ...

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