Agile Methods

Agile, as a development concept, has been around for more than 10 years now, and there are a number of different frameworks for being Agile. Basically, they differ only in the level of formality they prescribe. A decent comparison of the more popular methods is provided here

Our company has decided to standardise on DSDM Atern as the framework of choice. As you will read throughout this series of posts, I have deviated from the DSDM ‘gospel’, or introduced practices from other methods if I think they will be of value.

My chief criticism of DSDM Atern is that, like PRINCE2, it is heavy with deliverable products or artefacts. Atern prescribes the production of an awful lot of documents, which we are either scaling down considerably, or doing away with altogether. I hope to be able to describe what we are producing at each stage of the project life cycle as we go through it.