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Another Suspect Agile Metaphor – Disaster Response

Smith & Sidky’s Becoming Agile in an Imperfect World opens with a description of the Quecreek mine rescue as a metaphor for Agile software development. They identify elements of the rescue team’s efforts that are shared with Agile development. Those elements include the presence of time constraints to the work Read more…

By Chris Powell, 2 yearsApril 7, 2023 ago

Analogies

Is Scrum a Local Search Technique?

I have often wondered if Scrum can be characterized as a local search technique, specifically hill-climbing, and therefore can be understood from a theoretical perspective by comparison. In computer science, local search is a heuristic method for solving computationally hard optimization problems. Local search can be used on problems that Read more…

By Chris Powell, 3 yearsOctober 11, 2022 ago