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In the past few years there’s been a rapidly growing interest in “lightweight” methodologies. Alternatively characterized as an antidote to bureaucracy or a license to hack they’ve stirred up interest all over the software landscape. In this essay I explore the reasons for lightweight methods, focusing not so much on their weight but on their adaptive nature and their people-first orientation. I also give a summary and references to the processes in this school and consider the factors that should influence your choice of whether to go down this newly trodden path.
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Biography: Martin Fowler (1963-), male, Professor, research direction: software engineering.
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Fowler, M. The new methodology. Wuhan Univ. J. of Nat. Sci. 6, 12–24 (2001). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF03160222
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/BF03160222