How does SEMAT propose to address this? Not, initially anyway, by actually doing any experimental evaluation and validation. As programmer and former professor Greg Wilson comments in his “Two Solitudes” keynote talk from the SPLASH 2013 conference, the SEMAT book doesn’t cite a single empirical study.55 Instead, between the three forewords and twelve pages of testimonials at the end, it attempts to abstract out the common parts of software process management methodologies into a metamethodology, which could then be used to diagnose flaws in your actual methodology. Given that Agile is already
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