Microsoft is Agile, why aren't you?

posted Monday, May 24, 2004 7:56 PM

Has everyone noticed the iterative development cycles we're seeing with VS.NET 2005?  It seems as if Ward, Jim Newkirk and friends have persuaded the powers that be within Microsoft that agile development works.  They have a slightly extended iteration cycle (about two months) but considering the size of the “project” they're working on anything shorter probably wouldn't make sense.  It's interesting to watch a huge software company like Microsoft slowly adopt agile development methodologies.  Maybe there's something to this “Agile Manifesto”?  Then again maybe it's just a fad?

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# re: Microsoft is Agile, why aren't you?

Monday, May 24, 2004 11:21 PM by Alex Lowe    
The dev cycles haven't changed all that much. What you are seeing is the release of software periodically inserted in the dev cycles. The devs are not really focused on the fact that a drop is being made to the public (they are only doing a 1 day scrub before sending it out to you all - that is why it might be very buggy =). These community drops are not like the drops done for beta 1, beta 2, etc.

That said, Agile has been going on inside Microsoft on various teams with various levels of implementation for some time now.

Microsoft is definitely Agile! =P

# re: Microsoft is Agile, why aren't you?

Monday, May 24, 2004 11:33 PM by Steve    
Thanks for the insight Alex!

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