Agentic-Agile: Why Agent Development Needs Agile (Not Just Prompts)
The article discusses the need for a new development methodology called Agentic-Agile, which integrates AI agents into the software development process. It highlights the limitations of traditional prompt-driven development and the importance of structured processes for larger projects. The author emphasizes the need for continuous improvement and collaboration among teams using this new approach.
- ▪Prompt-driven development is effective for small tasks but struggles with larger, more complex projects.
- ▪Agentic-Agile development aims to address the challenges of scaling development with AI agents in teams.
- ▪The methodology seeks to maintain alignment and flexibility while ensuring continuous improvement in software development.
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“A bad system will beat a good person [or agent] every time” ~Dr. William Edwards Deming (with apologies) I started vibe coding by writing prompts (often dictated into my phone), refining them with an agent in M365 Copilot, and creating handoff files to use with GitHub Copilot CLI. The results were predictably non-deterministic. Prompt-driven development is a typical starting pattern: a developer opens a chat session, writes a prompt, reviews the output, adjusts, re-prompts. Maybe they get something useful. Maybe they spend an afternoon debugging emergent behavior that nobody specified and nobody tested.
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