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From: kevin.cline@gmail.com (Kevin Cline)
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Subject: Re: ADA Popularity Discussion Request
Date: 28 Aug 2004 07:05:41 -0700
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Jeffrey Carter <spam@spam.com> wrote in message news:<aMKXc.203$8d1.94@newsread2.news.pas.earthlink.net>...
> Kevin Cline wrote:
> 
> > The efficacy of much pre-code activity is debatable.  Many
> > organizations have had great success with more agile methods of
> > minimal up-front design followed by test-driven development and
> > continuous refactoring.
> 
> The success of agile methods is debatable. Much of agile methods is 
> simply a rehash of the rapid prototyping spiral methods of the 1970s 
> intended to elicit requirements, and those are excellent methods when 
> requirements are unclear. The main difference between those methods and 
> agile methods is that the latter eliminates the final iteration of the 
> spiral methods, in which the now well defined requirements are used to 
> create a design, which is then implementated, possibly reusing some of 
> the code from the prototypes.

I think the main ideas of agile development are test-driven
development,
and continuous refactoring of code.  Neither was a key practice in
1970s style rapid prototyping methods.