[Sigia-l] How the design process fits into the agile methodology

[Victor Lombardi]

On Feb 18, 2007, at 12:00 PM, Ziya wrote:
>
> Livia Labate:
>
>> the agile nature of the development really only speaks to the  
>> development
>> cycle
>
> I wonder if there's general agreement on that. (I myself don't have a
> position.) If the development cycle has, say, 30 steps, it's  
> relatively easy
> to conjecture how steps 3-30 may evolve through iteration. But who
> determines what the *first* 2-3 steps will be?


These two comments seem to get at the heart of the issue. Agile is an  
approach to software development, while our focus is the larger  
development of the product. In my experience the latter becomes agile  
when the team takes a craft approach: the designer and technician are  
the same person, or at least tightly coupled teams (6 or less people  
building the same parts at essentially the same time). Anything else  
inevitably involves some waterfalls.

Victor