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Agile and the Orders of Ignorance
Agile and First Order Ignorance
It is within the range of First Order Ignorance that the concepts of Agile
first start to appear (see Exhibit 6). Above all, software development is a
discovery activity and, while Zeroth Order Ignorance is all about knowl-
edge application, 1OI starts to address knowledge acquisition.
The role of traditional process has been to codify and make repeatable
what is known. First Order Ignorance is on that boundary: there are things
that are not known but that fact is understood. 1OI has been qualified ear-
lier as having the question. But there are levels of question. It is possible to
have the question but not know who to ask. That is, there is lack of knowl-
edge about both the subject ...