Summary for scrutinizing agile practices or shoot-out at process corral!

ABSTRACT

Agile methods and practices are gaining momentum in industry, and are also slowly making their way in academia bringing fresh air and funny new jargon. Some practitioners consider them as the ultimate advance in software engineering. But what do we know about this? Where is the evidence? Do they scale? Do they solve real issues or just substitute new issues to old ones? Are the benefits tangible, or just acts of faith? Aren't we all agile? Are they no agile failures? Isn't the "waterfall process" - that piñata of agilistas--the real holy grail of software engineering, and agile processes only a Band-Aid to compensate for our deficiencies? This workshop aims at challenging the ready-made ideas, the fluff, the hype, putting things into context, and examining these with fresh and open eyes.

INDEX TERMS

Primary Classification:
  D. Software
  D.2 SOFTWARE ENGINEERING
      D.2.9 Management
          Subjects: Software process models (e.g., CMM, ISO, PSP)

Additional Classification:
  D. Software
  D.2 SOFTWARE ENGINEERING
      D.2.9 Management
          Subjects: Productivity

General Terms:
Design, Human Factors, Management

Keywords:
agile, software methods, software process, software tools