Agile Software Development is often considered a software development process, but is actually a marketing technique developed by 3M to sell more post-it notes. It's rapidly increasing in popularity and the creators are laughing all the way to the bank.
Agile Software Development is often considered a software development process, but is actually a marketing technique developed by 3M to sell more post-it notes. It's rapidly increasing in popularity and the creators are laughing all the way to the bank. Another quietly held belief is that Agile Development was devised by a group of grumpy developers in a near empty bar one dark and rainy night when they couldn't ride their bicycles. They complained to each other of specifications that kept getting in the way their creativity. Quickly, since they were running out of money, they devised a plan that Marketing would buy into since those guys weren't smart enough to understand it. This culmination of Sam Adams Summer Ale and lime jello shots allows a developer the freedom to create without having to decide what the product or function should accomplish. The process saves the developer several hours of effort. That small slice of time is exponentially expended at the end of the project where Testing and Marketing try to determine if the resultant product does anything useful or has any value at all. Since that fateful night Development has considered Agile a pretty neat method for testing the creativity of their co-workers.