Agility and Discipline

In his book 'Balancing Agility and Discipline: A guide for the perplexed' Barry Boehm provides six different definitions for the word discipline to show that discipline and agility are not incompatible. A quick glance at the Values of Extreme Programming show several overlaps with TSP principles. However, many proponents of agile methods seem to view them as incompatible with PSP (Personal Software Process)/TSP (Team Software Process). Karen Smiley of ABB shows how these notions are incorrect and the two are actually complementary. ( Agility and Team Software Process ).

Ron Jefferies reports about his encounter with Watts Humphrey at the XP Agile Universe meet where Watts was one of the keynote speakers. Ron talks about Watts' obsession with data and how they carried out an experiment to collect data on defects.