--- title: "Responses to agile concerns" url: "https://osherove.com/blog/2003/9/30/responses-to-agile-concerns.md" canonical: "https://osherove.com/blog/2003/9/30/responses-to-agile-concerns.html" published: "2003-09-30T11:42:00" updated: "2003-09-30T11:42:00" tags: [".Net Quotations"] author: "Roy Osherove" description: "Our very own Steve Eichert recently posted on the skeptics' view of agile . It has taken a while, but I have compiled responses to each of the original concerns, in order. [ Darrell Norton ] Darrell approaches most of…" usage: "Licensed under CC BY 4.0 — reuse, quote and adapt with attribution (Roy Osherove, link to the original page)." license: "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/" --- # Responses to agile concerns By Roy Osherove September 30, 2003 In [.Net Quotations](https://osherove.com/blog/category/net-quotations) **Historical article** · Originally published September 30, 2003; technical details may be outdated.

Our very own Steve Eichert recently posted on the skeptics' view of agile.  It has taken a while, but I have compiled responses to each of the original concerns, in order.

\[[Darrell Norton](http://dotnetjunkies.com/WebLog/darrell.norton/posts/1947.aspx)\] Darrell approaches most of the issues here very eloquently. I like the way he thinks. Still, even though I'm “sold” on agile dev methodologies, I'm still not sure how well they are transferable to the customer. I guess I'll have to read more about [Scrum](http://www.controlchaos.com/), not just [XP](http://www.xprogramming.com/). ## More in .Net Quotations [All posts in .Net Quotations](https://osherove.com/blog/category/net-quotations) - Oct 1, 2003 ### [The Exception Model](https://osherove.com/blog/2003/10/1/the-exception-model.html) - Sep 30, 2003 ### [\[Cool Tool\]: Code Library for .Net](https://osherove.com/blog/2003/9/30/cool-tool-code-library-for-net.html) - Sep 29, 2003 ### [Creating Doc-Centric Apps in WinForms, part 1 of 3](https://osherove.com/blog/2003/9/29/creating-doc-centric-apps-in-winforms-part-1-of-3.html) - Sep 29, 2003 ### [Appsettings can Reference an External Config File](https://osherove.com/blog/2003/9/29/appsettings-can-reference-an-external-config-file.html) --- ## About the author **Roy Osherove**: Senior Solutions Architect at AWS working on AI for production and AI-driven development; author of The Art of Unit Testing and Elastic Leadership, with about 20 years of consulting and training on unit testing, TDD, team leadership and continuous delivery. ### Sites - [RobotPaper](https://robotpaper.ai/): This blog: AI patterns and anti-patterns, AI and coding agents, and engineering leadership. - [osherove.com](https://osherove.com): Roy's personal site. Author of The Art of Unit Testing and Elastic Leadership; consulting and training on unit testing, TDD, team leadership and continuous delivery, plus about 20 years of blog posts. - [The Art of Unit Testing](https://www.artofunittesting.com): The Art of Unit Testing, 3rd Edition (Manning): readable, maintainable, trustworthy unit tests, plus TDD workshops in C#, JavaScript, Java and Kotlin. - [5whys.com](https://www.5whys.com): Roy's writing on software team leadership: self-organizing teams, surviving chaos, learning mode and the Elastic Leadership model. - [Pipeline Driven](https://pipelinedriven.org): Continuous delivery and DevOps practices: build patterns, pipeline-friendly testing, DevOps metrics and enterprise DevOps. - [Elastic Leadership](https://www.elasticleadership.com): Elastic Leadership, Roy's framework for software team leaders (survival, learning and self-organizing modes). ### Social - X: https://x.com/royosherove - LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/osherove/ ### Contact - Contact form: https://forms.gle/jQSx5KoXvrVA1JCK7 ### License Licensed under CC BY 4.0 — reuse, quote and adapt with attribution (Roy Osherove, link to the original page). License: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/