What is Adaptive Software Development?
“Adaptive Software Development is driven by a focus on people – to share a common mission, to collaborate, to develop a sense of joint commitment, to learn on the journey together, and to find a balance between people and product and between rigor and flexibility.” What I Like About this Book First, this book explains why rigid development methodologies are often inadequate to meet the needs of software that must meet the demands of a changing marketplace. There is a spectrum of software development attitudes that spans at one end the “monumental approach” characterized by monumental processes and bureaucracy, and “accidental software development” which rejects all ideas of knowing what is to be built, at the other end of the spectrum. Highsmith does a good job of helping the reader see that both ends of the spectrum are dangerous. Second, the book goes beyond concepts and shows plenty of ways to apply the ideas. Topics such as creating the project mission, planning adaptive developmen
