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Quit Cashing in on the Agile name

I’m tired of hearing how everything is now “Agile.” Agile databases, agile RUP, agile documentation, agile testing, agile modeling, agile management, agile architecture, agile requirements, agile Extreme Programming, agile IT, even agile BDUF! It’s enough to make an agile enthusiast cry… *sob*.

While I’m on this rant, let me go for a second round. Extreme Programming != Agile. The terms are not interchangeable. XP is a type of agile method, but certainly not the first nor the last (nor the best in my opinion, but if it works for you…). I’m so tired of seeing people equate the two. If you are making that mistake, you don’t know enough about what you are doing. Please put the gun down before you hurt yourself.

Ok, I feel better now.

Posted 06-09-2004 8:02 PM by Darrell Norton

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Steve wrote RE: Quit Cashing in on the Agile name
on 06-10-2004 1:10 AM
Was that an "Agile Rant"? :-) I'm definitely right there with ya, it's getting a little nuts.
Darrell wrote re: Quit Cashing in on the Agile name
on 06-10-2004 1:12 AM
You're darn right it was an Agile rant! Which was written in an agile manner on my agile blog on the agile DotNetJunkies web site. :)
Steve wrote re: Quit Cashing in on the Agile name
on 06-10-2004 2:01 AM
lol, you're one agile dude!
Grant wrote re: Quit Cashing in on the Agile name
on 06-10-2004 2:08 AM
Darrell, <FerrisBuellerQuote>you sounded like Dirty Harry just then</FerrisBuellerQuote>.

Agility is a victim of it's own success and the marketeers are trying to cash in on it's high buzzwordiness factor.

Why don't you offer a series of blog entries on the definitive Agile, the definite XP, etc. I know you've got http://dotnetjunkies.com/WebLog/darrell.norton/category/345.aspx?Show=All but something to set the record straight would be a welcome addition!

Can I buy you lunch on Saturday for it?
Darrell wrote re: Quit Cashing in on the Agile name
on 06-10-2004 2:25 AM
Grant - there's no such thing as a free lunch! Heh. Yeah, I'll get around to posting some more on agile software development (notice the LOWER casing).
Jiho Han wrote re: Quit Cashing in on the Agile name
on 06-10-2004 3:35 AM
Here's an agile comment.

agile.
Darrell wrote re: Quit Cashing in on the Agile name
on 06-10-2004 5:13 AM
Hehe.
Brendan Tompkins wrote re: Quit Cashing in on the Agile name
on 06-10-2004 6:23 AM
I smell a dotnet Gnome comic in the works...

Darrell wrote re: Quit Cashing in on the Agile name
on 06-10-2004 6:49 AM
Hehe! Go Brendan. I just wish I had some artistic skills.

Darrell.ArtisticSkills = null;
Darrell Norton's Blog wrote Is Agile for
on 06-11-2004 2:03 AM
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Brendan Tompkins wrote Ping/Trackback
on 06-11-2004 2:22 AM