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title: "Lifetime of a software methodology"
url: "https://osherove.com/blog/2009/6/30/lifetime-of-a-software-methodology.md"
canonical: "https://osherove.com/blog/2009/6/30/lifetime-of-a-software-methodology.html"
published: "2009-06-30T13:36:26"
updated: "2009-06-30T13:36:26"
tags: [".NET", "Agile"]
author: "Roy Osherove"
description: "I think I heard Jerry Seinfeld say that the life of an actor are: Who’s Jerry Seinfeld? Get me Jerry Seinfeld Get me a young Jerry Seinfeld Who’s Jerry Seinfeld? Which really feels these days like: What’s “CMM” Let’s do…"
usage: "Licensed under CC BY 4.0 — reuse, quote and adapt with attribution (Roy Osherove, link to the original page)."
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---

# Lifetime of a software methodology

By Roy Osherove June 30, 2009 In [.NET](https://osherove.com/blog/category/net), [Agile](https://osherove.com/blog/category/agile)

**Historical article** · Originally published June 30, 2009; technical details may be outdated.

I think I heard Jerry Seinfeld say that the life of an actor are:

- Who’s Jerry Seinfeld?
- Get me Jerry Seinfeld
- Get me a young Jerry Seinfeld
- Who’s Jerry Seinfeld?

**Which really feels these days like:**

- What’s “CMM”
- Let’s do “CMM”
- Let’s do an adapted version of “CMM”
- Here’s a better,lighter “CMM”
- What’s “CMM”?

- What’s “Agile”
- Let’s do “Agile”
- Let’s do an adapted version of “Agile”
- Here’s a better, lighter “Agile”
- What’s “Agile”?

- What’s “Scrum”
- Let’s do “Scrum”
- Let’s do an adapted version of “Scrum”
- Here’s a better, lighter “Scrum”
- What’s “Scrum”?

- What’s “Lean”
- Let’s do “Lean”
- Let’s do an adapted version of “Lean”
- Here’s a better, lighter “Lean”
- What’s “Lean”?

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## 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.

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- [RobotPaper](https://robotpaper.ai/): This blog: AI patterns and anti-patterns, AI and coding agents, and engineering leadership.
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- [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.
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