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Agile methods contain a mix of the best and the worst, plus some ideas of minor importance. Chapter 11 is the concluding assessment, discussing “The Good, the Hype and the Ugly”:
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Agile principles and practices, new or not, which demonstrably foster software quality and productivity – the good (and in some cases the brilliant).
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Widely touted ideas that make little difference, good or bad, to the resulting software – the hype.
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Agile-recommended techniques that are just plain wrong, guaranteed to damage your projects and your software – the ugly.
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Meyer, B. (2014). The Ugly, the Hype and the Good: an assessment of the agile approach. In: Agile!. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-05155-0_11
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