What are some of the agile methodologies?
At the methodology level there are things like extreme programming (XP), scrum — a project management methodology, agile modeling — for modeling and documentation, the open enterprise process — a basic combination of the XP, scrum, agile modeling, rational unified process (RUP) which is more of a full development methodology and crystal clear, but not many organisations are doing that. The agile method attracts a fair amount of criticism. Why is this the case? The reason there is a lot of criticism is that a lot of people don’t understand what’s going on, they don’t know what they’re looking at. There’s a lot of misinformation out there which gets repeated. People really are threatened by this, because part of the agile message is that you have to produce, you have to add value in a visible and measurable way and a lot of people from the traditional world really don’t add value and they know it. We’re often criticised for not writing documentation, which is completely false. How can
