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Wed, May 9, 2007 22:47 EDT
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Posted by: mtnygard in Best Practices Topic: IT Organization Management
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The Agile Manifesto is explicit about it. "We value individuals and interactions over processes and tools." How should an Agile team---more specifically, an XP team---respond to the IT Infrastructure Library (ITIL), then? After all, ITIL takes seven books just to define the customizable framework for the actual practices. An IT organization usually takes at least seven more binders to define its actual processes.
Can XP and ITIL coexist in the same building? Or, is Extreme Programming just incompatible with ITIL? In short: no.
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