I’ve always been a fan of agile methodologies – just as I’ve always dreaded process heavy projects…mostly that fear has come with good reason, i.e., the project I’m on right now that is a waterfall project in scrum clothing ;)
Well I found myself briefly thinking “Grrrrr – why did *this* have to change” today when I found out a nice chunk of work I’ve done for the current sprint I’m on will need to be re-worked because there were some rather significant database changes, i.e., adding 4 more tables with lots of new relationships. So for a brief moment I lost my mind and though “I wish this had been designed up front” only to realize later that – no, if it were designed up front, 1) they would still want to change it and 2) design up front would have meant even more time spent in design meetings than I already had…in fact in light of some major requirements changing we’re now spending a good portion of the rest of the week re-estimating the rest of the project.
So what do I do? Embrace the change – that’s the spirit of an Agile process…embrace the change and work with it…so excuse me while I eat my agile cake.