The Case For A Less Methodical Methodology: Lean, Light, Extreme, Adaptive, Agile and Appropriate Software Development

摘要

Historically, the approach to software engineering has been based on a search for an optimal methodology―that is, the identification and application of a set of processes, methods and tools that can predictably lead to software development success. Less methodical methodologies, under a variety of names, takes a contingency oriented approach. Because of the limitations in the nature of methodology, the high failure rate in software development, the need to develop methodology within an environmental context, and the pressures of fast-paced "E" development, further exploration and definition of a more flexible, contingency-based approach to methodology is justified.