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Or Not Every Single Process Component Is Effective Alone

Although I propose picking different techniques and process components from every method that you can lay your hands on, this doesnt mean that you can just pick a single piece from a method and hope it will work.I stress that an issue should be tackled by the introduction of a certain process component. A certain risk should be reduced. So sometimes this means that you have to add another piece in tandem with the technique you had in mind. They go hand in hand, and one without the other would be useless.

Alistair Cockburn provides a nice example in his article, “Are Iterations Hazardous to Your Project?“. Simply doing iterations in development without involving the users in the intermediate results is just wasting your time. Iterations are intended as a feedback mechanism; just iterating without the feedback part will make the techniques ineffective. In the words of Cockburn, “Danger grows when the results of the iteration are not directly linked to delivering the product to the end user”.