While Agile has been well covered in other forums, one of the areas that I note is significantly underplayed is the amount of cultural change required moving from Waterfall techniques to Agile. In particular, I note that people from a Waterfall background *still* want to complete full requirements before moving into the Agile phase - it takes a lot of effort to let go of that security blanket. And on top of that, integrating Agile based deliverables into Waterfall deliverables seems to be left for others to discuss- maybe it's best not to consider that right now but seems like a recipe for failure.
So I was really pleased to see the Agile Barcamp wiki set-up from the session here in Wellington two weeks ago. I was disappointed I couldn't make that session as I was in Auckland that day (story of my life!) - however I have had the benefit of seeing the presentations uploaded now and can contact the people who wrote them and ask them how to integrate Agile and Waterfall. Fabulous.
Ironically (or otherwise) I've noted that a couple of Dilbert cartoons have focussed on Agile recently.
http://www.dilbert.com/comics/dilbert/archive/dilbert-20071126.htmlBeing in the camp of the business owner, I personally like this one.
I found this here http://cns2.uni.edu/~wallingf/teaching/agile/resources/dilbert-xp/
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