Foreword by Alistair Cockburn
It was brave of Barry Boehm and Rich Turner to ask me to write a foreword for their book. They risk that as a founding agilite, I'll take exception to their characterization of the agile position.
Actually, I agree with them. They manage to peer through the rhetoric to uncover the strengths and weaknesses of the agile practices and to then compare and contrast those with the strengths and weaknesses of the plan-driven practices. They go further, showing how to borrow from each when the situation calls for it. This is no small accomplishment. I commend the authors for having managed it, and for making the result readable at the same time.
A word I find interesting throughout their discussion is discipline. The concept ...
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