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Agile Management for Software Engineering: Applying the Theory of Constraints for Business Results
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Agile Management for Software Engineering: Applying the Theory of Constraints for Business Results

by David J. Anderson, Eli Schragenheim
September 2003
Intermediate to advanced
336 pages
10h 11m
English
Pearson
Content preview from Agile Management for Software Engineering: Applying the Theory of Constraints for Business Results

Section 3. Comparison of Methods

No one approach to management can be a panacea. It is unlikely that a single method will be acceptable for all situations. It is, therefore, necessary to question the application of Agile methods.

It is always attractive to polarize a debate. It forces people to choose. Which side are you on? Our political systems work that way. In the United States, you are either a donkey or an elephant, or you choose to opt out of politics.

There has been a similar tendency in the Agile community to polarize the debate as in traditional heavyweight methods versus Agile lightweight methods—the former being bad and the latter good.

Such a polarization is naïve, and wise business leaders will see it as such. It is necessary ...

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