On Sun, March 4, 2007 8:06 am, Brian Lyons said: > hiho, > > > > I was surfing around looking at some pages relating to the usage of > agile techniques and I came across this very small article > <http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic > &articleId=273413> referencing the success Sabre is having in applying > an agile process. > > > > I was sort of put off by this erroneous-sounding snippet: "Sabre's > approach to agile development draws from other iterative programming > techniques such as UML". Certainly UML can be an important development > technique applied in iterative development, but I wouldn't casually > reference it as an "iterative programming technique".
You naively assume that the writer understands the material that they're writing about. ;-) > > > > Anyway, the intriguing quote is this one: "As Sabre began developing a > runtime infrastructure in 2004, project iterations would typically start > with an inception phase - an evaluation of what Sabre's products could > do in a Web services environment - followed by an elaboration phase". > Hmmm, agility and a set of phases starting with inception and then going > on to elaboration. And usage of UML. Sounds like a great idea! Definitely. Does anyone have any contacts at Sabre? Perhaps we should approach them? - Scott Practice Leader Agile Development, IBM Rational http://www-306.ibm.com/software/rational/bios/ambler.html Refactoring Databases ( http://www.ambysoft.com/books/refactoringDatabases.html ) is now available. _______________________________________________ epf-dev mailing list [email protected] https://dev.eclipse.org/mailman/listinfo/epf-dev
