I was listening to a great podcast in the car today – “Programming Leadership” – and the topic was on Agile Development.
At one point the interviewee on the cast said something along the lines of – “you learn a couple of methodologies, you put them into a toolbox and you pick what works for your organization and you do it.” – I almost pulled the car off to the side of the road.
I’ve been saying this for years to teams that are hooked on having to follow a methodology for the sake of following it.
Don’t.
And this goes for everything in software. Learn what you can, add it all into your toolbox, and then when the moment hits – pull out the platform, language, methodology, framework, etc, etc that meets the needs of what you are trying to accomplish.
One size has Never fit all.
