Being Fleshed Out – Emergent Design

In ourlatest adventure at work, we’re racing headlong and headfirst down the road of “emergent design” in Agile software development. We’re learning how to “fail fast and fail often” the hard way, and it’s been a challenge to determine whether we’re failing “correctly” — if there really is such a thing!

Traditionally, software was developed insome form of “waterfall process” in which a relatively firm set ofrequirements were defined by sales or marketing, which then flowed down to engineering...