Agile Methods: The good, the hype and the ugly

This event requires registration: http://www.unicom.co.uk/agile

This workshop describes in detail the corpus of techniques covered by the “agile” umbrella (so that you can apply them effectively to your developments), and assesses their contribution to software engineering. It is neither “for” nor “against” agile methods but fundamentally descriptive, pedagogical, objective and practical. The truth is that agile methods include some demonstrably good ideas along with some whose benefits are at best dubious. In addition (and this should not be a surprise) they cannot make the fundamental laws of software engineering go away