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In the Multics--The first seven years ( 1972 Spring Joint Computer Conference ) Corbato et al make the interesting statement: " In spite of [bold added] the unexpected design iteration phase, the Multics system became sufficiently effective by late 1968 to allow system programmers to use the system while still developing it. " I think that many from the agile community might change the " in spite of " to " because of "... :-)

Ravi Mohan has posted to his blog, Pin Dancing , a provocative (and likely correct) evaluation of the Agile/xtreme/lean programming wave we have seen over the last couple of years (" Let the Agile Fad Flow By " - Sept 26 2009). Enjoy.