IROAI » agile http://www.iroai.org Institutul Roman de Arhitectura Informatiei - The Romanian Institute of Information Architecture Sun, 05 Jun 2011 22:26:17 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 In defense of “making it up as you go along” http://www.iroai.org/2010/07/29/in-defense-of-%e2%80%9cmaking-it-up-as-you-go-along%e2%80%9d/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=in-defense-of-%25e2%2580%259cmaking-it-up-as-you-go-along%25e2%2580%259d http://www.iroai.org/2010/07/29/in-defense-of-%e2%80%9cmaking-it-up-as-you-go-along%e2%80%9d/#comments Thu, 29 Jul 2010 18:07:14 +0000 IROAI http://www.iroai.org/?p=626 “I confess – I’m for it. And I’ll go even further – I think “making it up as you go along” is one of the greatest, and most important processes of any age.

No great explorer set out with a detailed set of explorer guidelines. They adjusted and discovered.

No great inventor set out with a detailed set of inventor guidelines. They experimented and adapted.

No great leader set out with a detailed set of leadership guidelines. Leaders point the way and rally followers when their faith fails.

“Making it up as you go along” means that you recognize a good foothold on your way up a mountain and know how to take advantage of it (in other words, you understand your craft). But you don’t need (literally) a step-by-step instruction book (because you understand your craft). In software development terms, the “step-by-step” equivalent is a requirements specification. Kind of like paint-by-numbers for would-be Rembrandts who don’t yet know that method is incapable of producing genuine art.” (Eric Reiss)

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]]> http://www.iroai.org/2010/07/29/in-defense-of-%e2%80%9cmaking-it-up-as-you-go-along%e2%80%9d/feed/ 0 Bringing User Centered Design to the Agile Environment http://www.iroai.org/2010/02/01/bringing-user-centered-design-to-the-agile-environment/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=bringing-user-centered-design-to-the-agile-environment http://www.iroai.org/2010/02/01/bringing-user-centered-design-to-the-agile-environment/#comments Mon, 01 Feb 2010 16:02:18 +0000 IROAI http://www.iroai.org/?p=467 “Envisioned by a group of developers, Agile is an iterative development approach that takes small steps toward defining a product or service. At the end of each step, we have something built that we could release to the market if we choose to and therefore it can assure some speed to market where waterfall methods usually fail. Agile prefers to work out how to build something as we go, rather than do a waterfall style deep dive into specification and then finding out we can’t build parts of the spec for some reason e.g. a misjudgment of feasibility, misjudgment of time to build, or changing requirements.” full article

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