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People have a nasty habit of ruining neatly drawn up methodologies. It’s not that they intend to, it is just that people are packaged as “individuals” while methodologies are packaged in “roles.” We shall explore principles that follow methodologies versus those that follow people, see how far methodologies can take us versus where we have to give in to the characteristics of people, and how to concoct an agile-but-sufficient methodology on the fly, using a view of software development as a cooperative game of invention and communication.
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Cockburn, A. (2001). People and the Limits of Methodology. In: Knudsen, J.L. (eds) ECOOP 2001 — Object-Oriented Programming. ECOOP 2001. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 2072. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-45337-7_16
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