Trends, Camps and Collisions
Marcus V. Goncalves, Raj Heda · ASME Press eBooks · 2010
While managers designed traditional methodologies in an effort to control projects, the technical community gave birth to agile methodologies in response to their frustrations with traditional management (or lack thereof), and the resulting collision of their methods, products, and morals have generated a few trends and camps. For example, the principles of XP are focused almost entirely on the development process. While the technical community has championed these principles, very little has been written about the management side of agile development projects. The implication is that there is little need for a project manager since XP teams develop and monitor their own tasks. No wonder that corporate management has been skeptical of agile methodologies and slow to embrace them.