Comments on: Some of the problems I see in Agile Methods – Part 2 http://blog.hexacta.com/some-of-the-problems-i-see-in-agile-methods-%e2%80%93-part-2/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=some-of-the-problems-i-see-in-agile-methods-%25e2%2580%2593-part-2 Sat, 25 Jun 2011 03:11:27 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Tomás Pollak http://blog.hexacta.com/some-of-the-problems-i-see-in-agile-methods-%e2%80%93-part-2/#comment-20 Tomás Pollak Sat, 28 Nov 2009 02:10:24 +0000 http://blog.hexacta.com/?p=247#comment-20 I think this is a cautionary warning for people that are not experts. As you say, there are very few rules but they all have a purpose. The risk is that people often want to change a rule they don't like or make sense of, before they have seen its benefit. There's a saying that goes: First you have to learn the rules, only then you can learn when to break them. In XP the same idea is present, but instead of saying "don't change it", they say "change it*". http://www.extremeprogramming.org/rules/fixit.html I think this is a cautionary warning for people that are not experts. As you say, there are very few rules but they all have a purpose. The risk is that people often want to change a rule they don’t like or make sense of, before they have seen its benefit.

There’s a saying that goes: First you have to learn the rules, only then you can learn when to break them.

In XP the same idea is present, but instead of saying “don’t change it”, they say “change it*”.
http://www.extremeprogramming.org/rules/fixit.html

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