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Agile Styles: Feature Driven Development and the Crystal Methodologies

Presented by David Anderson, Alistair Cockburn on May 16, 2007 06:21 AM

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Agile
Topics
Methodologies
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Crystal ,
Agile2006 ,
FDD
Summary
Prominent practitioners and writers introduced four popular approaches at Agile2006 in the "Agile Styles" talk. In the first half of the presentation, Alistair Cockburn talked about his Crystal Methodologies and David J. Anderson presented Feature Driven Development (FDD).

Bio
Dr. Alistair Cockburn (alistair.cockburn.us) is a renowned project witchdoctor / IT strategist, author of "Agile Software Development: The Cooperative Game," and co-author of the Agile Manifesto. David J. Anderson (www.agilemanagement.net) helped create FDD in the late '90s, authored "Agile Management for Software Engineering," and co-authored the APLN's Declaration of Interdependence in 2005.

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