Agile in the Press
Posted by andy in : Agile, Business Value on November 22, 2004ComputerWeekly.com have an interesting article (European banking giant adopts agile development methodology)
It’s full of mixed messages!
On the one hand it talks about Fred Tingey positive experience of using Extreme Programming (XP) at BNP Paribas.
And then, it switches tack with an apparent “Security Expert” taking the view that agile is far too risky:
…this type of development exposes users to unnecessary risks as it is difficult to build security into the software development lifecycle.
This is a strange thing to say as security is a feature (not a lifcycle issue) and delivering features is what XP is really good at. I have never had any problems adding security to an application that has been developed in an Agile way.
The wonderfully ironic twist is that Fred Tingey won the Risk Manager Of The Year award for using Agile (sadly not mentioned in the article)!
Oh well. The key part is that Fred Tingey is is winning awards for using Agile and that the banking community is starting to recognize the benefit of agile techniques. Well done Fred.
