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Naresh Jain's Random Thoughts on Software Development and Adventure Sports
     
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What kind of projects are suitable for Agile?

Agile, if you think about it as a process, may be, is applicable to specific types of project. I don’t see Agile as a process or a methodology. I see it as a way of thinking and hence I’ve applied it to various types of projects. I don’t have a baseline or benchmark to compare it against, because I did not do the same projects using other methods. All I know is most stakeholders including the team was very happy with the way things were working out. Some, who were not happy and just could not accept a different way to work left or were asked to leave.

Over the last 7 years, I’ve seen Agile successfully applied to large to small projects, co-located to distributed projects, critical to toy projects, ultra complex to simple projects, application development to system architecture to embedded software projects, open source to commercial projects, customer application to off-the-shelf integration projects, in-house development to co-sourced development to out-sourced development.

IMHO project success or failure is mostly influenced by the people and the environment they operate in. Process has a very small hand in it. Of course process can cripple you if the process and tools are in control and not the people.


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