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Agile History: Kent Beck vs. Alan Cooper

January 24, 2020January 24, 2020 Neil GreenLeave a comment

It can be argued that Scrum is the compromise Beck and Cooper had such trouble reaching in the following interview. As the original website where this was posted no longer exists, I copied the contents from the Internet Archives and reformatted it to improve the reading experience.

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