There's a mess I've heard about with quite a few projects recently. It works out like this: They want to use an agile process, and pick Scrum They adopt the Scrum practices, and maybe even the principles After a while progress is slow because the code base is a mess What's happened is that they haven't paid enough attention to the internal quality of their software. If you make that mistake you'll
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