Carol jogged over to him — they really were agile things, these creatures, Max thought.
Instead you have to "be agile, hack things together, funnel ideas, forge solutions, tweet about them, blog about them; fail lots, win some".
While some people consider agile methods the best thing that has happened to software development in recent years, other people view them as a backlash to software engineering and compare them to hacking.
It just makes things more agile, more transparent".
Lajos Moczar says agile methodology promises many things, but the reality is often very far from the expectations.
"The iterative, agile methodology of testing things out and getting feedback applies as much to policy development as it does to delivering services," he said.
We may not be big, and you may not have heard of us, but we can use our size to ensure that we're agile and can make things happen swiftly.
Nancy was a pretty girl, lean and boyishly agile, and the prettiest things about her were her short-bobbed, shining chestnut hair (brushed a hundred strokes each morning, the same number at night), and her soap-polished complexion, still faintly freckled and rose-brown from last summer's sun.
"We're trying to be agile and flexible and change things around as we go," one Bush aide said.
While the "come up with some action points to fix this issue" was like Getting Things Done on Agile Business logic, it provided a decent structure for us to figure out why we were actually talking about the issues and what we'd do (if we could).
