Agile: opportunity and threat

Abstract On February 2001, a group of representatives of different development methodologies gathered in Utah. Their mission: to come to an agreement about the necessity of alternate methods for the traditional development process. The concerns about the cost, inefficiency and lack of good results, known to waterfall development, took them to agree with various principles, later stated in their “Manifesto for Agile Software Development”. From the snow-covered mountains of Utah, the agile way...