BPUF: big picture up front

Authors:
Frank Keenan;David Bustard
Affiliations:
Department of Computing and Mathematics, Dundalk Institute of Technology, Dundalk, Co. Louth, Ireland;School of Information and Software Engineering, University of Ulster, Coleraine, UK
Venue:
XP'05 Proceedings of the 6th international conference on Extreme Programming and Agile Processes in Software Engineering
Year:
2005

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Abstract

XP recommends that developers focus on the software product ignoring issues that do not contribute directly to its construction. All wider issues are assumed to be the responsibility of the customer representative. This paper argues that there is benefit in the full development team considering the ‘big picture' before beginning implementation as long as this can be undertaken in a suitably agile way. Evidence of the need for this wider approach is presented. Aspects of Soft Systems Methodology (SSM) are then proposed as a means of performing the necessary analysis. Two analysis techniques of SSM, rich pictures and conceptual models, are evaluated against agile criteria defined by Ambler.