Foreword
Most software discussions, books, and articles seem to assume that development work starts with an empty codebase. The Agile literature usually presumes that the detailed learning about what is needed to solve a problem for a stakeholder community can be discovered iteratively and incrementally. This might be a valid assumption if one is starting fresh, but I seldom encounter teams with the opportunity of starting from scratch; there are always constraints. Most investment in software today involves modifications or extensions to existing applications and environments. Thus, in addition to discovering and implementing solutions to our organizational problems/opportunities, we have the constraint of fitting into the environment created ...
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