Guy Mahieu’s Blog

This year, the Waterfall Alliance organizes the first edition of its conference dedicated to the waterfall model.

From their site:

After years of being disparaged by some in the software development community, the waterfall process is back with a vengeance. You’ve always known a good waterfall-based process is the right way to develop software projects. Come to the Waterfall 2006 conference and see how a sequential development process can benefit your next project. Learn how slow, deliberate handoffs (with signatures!) between groups can slow the rate of change on any project so that development teams have more time to spend on anticipating user needs through big, upfront design.

In short: a must see for every agile-minded person, so see you at Waterfall 2006! :)

In a recent talk, Gregor Hohpe (software architect at Google) stated that Agile and SOA might prove to be a great combination in future software development projects. He states that big design upfront will most likely not be the best way to go, since SOA projects in general will be rather complex, and architects and developers will only be able completely understand them when they are finished.

Read the complete article here.

Over at TheServerSide.NET they have compiled a list of Agile Resources, some general and some specific for .NET. This list of resources is certainly worth browsing through.