Business context defines everything we do
"Universal law is for lackeys. Context is for kings."– Captain Lorca, Star Trek: Discovery.
When the Agile manifesto was created in 2001, software practitioners were calling for a change in the way that software was delivered. The waterfall model of software development, which was predominant, required that software specifications and business requirements were frozen upfront. There was very little room for change. Change had to be avoided because changing anything midway would increase costs and timelines. Waterfall had evolved as a way to handle software development processes based on the limitations of the software technology of that time. Much of software development then was about automating manual ...
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