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I agree with your general direction, but I have a quibble.

Agile methods were born from in-house enterprise software projects. The ur-project for Extreme Programming was a payroll system, and SCRUM's was something similarly dull. The original SCRUM paper says, "Scrum is concerned with the management, enhancement and maintenance of an existing product[...]. Scrum is not concerned with new or re-engineered systems development efforts."

If I'm doing rapid prototyping, that's when I'm least interested in Agile techniques like pair programming, test-driven development, and refactoring. Those only really pay off in the long haul.



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