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11. Dark Agile: Perceiving People As Assets, Not Humans

Pernille Bjørn1 
(1)
University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, DK, Denmark
 

Revisiting the Agile Manifesto

The agile principles for software engineering were developed as a reaction against structuring software engineering processes in strict stepwise and sequential ways. The idea that it was possible to create a clearly predefined scope prior to the actual software engineering activities was questioned—and the agile methodology was an attempt to rephrase the basic nature of software engineering. The agile understanding of software engineering is that the ...

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