Agile and Cinderalla's shoe

Today, I read with interest the article by Ivar Jacobson and Bertrand Meyer,
"Method Need Theory" in Dr. Dobb's.

Personally, I like certain things about Agile but I think it's oversold as panacea for all software development solutions. Use it where the shoes fits. There are sweet spots where Agile really shines but like Cinderalla's shoe, sometimes it doesn't fit and we tried too hard to fit our software development process into it.


Hope you enjoy the story without cutting the toes!

2010 - The year of SEMAT vs ANTI-SEMAT ?

Today, I stumbled on SEMAT(Software Engineering Method and Theory) on Ralph Johnson's blog. Yes, one of the folks from
the GoF Design Patterns Book.

The following people have signed the Call for Action statement. This list is dynamic; the up-to-date list is on the SEMAT web site.

* Pekka Abrahamsson
* Scott Ambler
* Victor Basili
* Jean Bzivin
* Dines Bjorner
* Barry Boehm
* Alan W. Brown
* Alistair Cockburn
* Larry Constantine
* Bill Curtis
* Donald Firesmith
* Erich Gamma
* Tom Gilb
* Ellen Gottesdiener
* Sam Guckenheimer
* David Harel
* Brian Henderson-Sellers
* Watts Humphrey
* Capers Jones
* Martin Griss
* Ivar Jacobson
* Philippe Kruchten
* Robert Martin
* Stephen Mellor
* Bertrand Meyer
* James Odell
* Meilir Page-Jones
* Ken Schwaber
* Alec Sharp
* Richard Soley

I recognize Sam Guckenheimer(now at Microsoft) from Rational Software days when we worked there.

It will be interesting to watch how this battle is being fought out.