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fully expect the big consulting companies to start offering Certified Agile Processes and Certified Agile
Consultants??”for astronomical fees, of course??”any day now.
Please don??™t get sucked into that mess.
In 1986, [Brooks] famously predicted that there were no silver bullets: that by 1996, no single
technology or management technique would offer a tenfold increase in productivity, reliability, or
simplicity. None did.
Agile development isn??™t a silver bullet, either.
In fact, I don??™t recommend adopting agile development solely to increase productivity. Its benefits??”
even the ability to release software more frequently??”come from working differently, not from working
faster. Although anecdotal evidence indicates that agile teams have above-average productivity,?? that
shouldn??™t be your primary motivation. Your team will need time to learn agile development. While they
learn??”and it will take a quarter or two??”they??™ll go slower, not faster. In addition, emphasizing
productivity might encourage your team to take shortcuts and to be less rigorous in their work, which
could actually harm productivity.
Agile development may be the cool thing to do right now, but that??™s no reason to use it.
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