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Agile Software Development: The Cooperative Game, Second Edition
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Agile Software Development: The Cooperative Game, Second Edition

by Alistair Cockburn
October 2006
Beginner to intermediate
504 pages
15h 10m
English
Addison-Wesley Professional
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4.1. Methodologies: Evolution

Five years ago I did not make a conscious separation between methodology and project management. It’s not that I confused the two, but I didn’t warn others against it. This is the time for that warning.

The first section in this chapter argues for separating project management strategies from process or methodology policies.

The second section addresses the tricky question: After these two are separated, and supposing the organization has a wide-ranging portfolio of projects to run, what can be said about methodologies across the organization?

The third section contains my best, most current description of how to talk about incremental, iterative, and cyclical process.

The fourth section addresses how to write ...

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