Balancing Agility and Discipline: A Guide for the Perplexed

Foreword by Grady Booch

There's a delightful irony in the fact that the very book you are holding in your hands has an agile pair of authors yet requires three times as many forewords as you'd find in any normal book.

Well, this is not a normal book; rather, it's a very pragmatic book that is not only quite approachable, but it is also immediately useful.

I have now personally lived through three generations of method wars. The era of structured analysis and design methods initially found its voice in methodologists such as Tom DeMarco, Ed Yourdon, Larry Constantine, Harlan Mills, Michael Jackson, and many others. There is an essential structured method that one can extract from their collective experience, but in the midst of that era, there ...