Announcing issue 2 of The Agile Developer's Life free eZine

[GerritM]

"Borcis" <borcis at users.ch> schreef in bericht
news:3F2D3E18.2020500 at users.ch...
> Peter Hansen wrote:
> > Borcis wrote:
> >
> >>DevCoach wrote:
> >>
> >>>I have just published the second issue of The Agile Developer's Life
> >>>(formerly called The Agile Life)
> >>
> >>How much of Rumsfeld's special vocab does it port to computer
programming ?
> >
> >
> > Translation, please, anyone?
>
> "Agile" as a buzzword in the current sense, I first heard applied by
> Rumsfeld to the military, so that I naturally concieve of it as an
> interface component to Rumsfeld's mind. Hence "porting".
>
As fas as I know agile is already a buzzword for quite some time. In the
software world used as opposition against all "heavy-weight" methodologies.
I doubt that Rumsfled invented it, although I do believe that the same
fashion agile/flexible/light-weight is actual for the military.

regards Gerrit


P.S., I used light-weight before I heard others using agile, see for
instance "Light Weight Architectures; The way of the future?"
<http://www.extra.research.philips.com/natlab/sysarch/LightWeightArchitectin
gPaper.pdf>

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