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The Nature of Software Development
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The Nature of Software Development

by Ron Jeffries
February 2015
Beginner to intermediate content levelBeginner to intermediate
178 pages
3h 15m
English
Pragmatic Bookshelf
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Chapter 20Agile Methods

I am, by good fortune, one of the authors of the Agile Manifesto.[1] The story I tell here is in accord with the Manifesto, to the best of my ability. The “Natural Way” is a distillation of what I’ve learned in a half-century of software development and almost twenty years of doing “Agile.” I am not trying to create another Agile method here. In Nature, I’m describing how I think software should be built, based on everything I’ve learned, before, during, and after “Agile.”

If you want to know more about Agile software development, there are many Agile methods or frameworks out there. The most popular is surely Scrum, by Jeff Sutherland and Ken Schwaber. Scrum, by design, is not focused solely on software. As such, Scrum ...

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