Tuesday, March 15, 2005

David Hecksel, senior Java architect at Sun Microsystems, moderated last night's panel discussion on agility. His panelists were Net Objectives senior consultant Dan Rawsthorne, Software Development columnist Scott Ambler, Effective Java author Joshua Bloch and Microsoft Visual Studio Team System program manager Granville Miller. The question-and-answer portion went quite well, with unexpected tangents from audience and experts into gender issues, people skills, software development vs. university-taught computer science. But Hecksel also plugged his own patterns for methodology, methodology selection, team composition and management at www.davidhecksel.com.

Apparently, he's seeking a patent for a “System and Method for Software Methodology Evaluation and Selection.” It seems he's wading into the business method patent territory (remember the Amazon one-click purchasing method patent uproar?). Hecksel also has defined a "Hecksel Agility Index," which appears in the December 2004 patent application as the "Agility score":

System and method for evaluating and selecting methodologies for software development projects that may be used in selecting an appropriate development process (methodology) for software projects from among various methodologies. A project context for a project may be defined. Attribute values for one or more attributes of one or more components of the project context may be determined. An Agility score for the project context may be generated from the determined attribute values. In one embodiment, a project context may be scored against each candidate methodology. The Agility score may be applied to an Agility curve for the project context to determine a best-fit methodology for the project from a plurality of methodologies. In one embodiment, the plurality of methodologies may include methodologies ranging from lightweight to heavyweight methodologies. In one embodiment, the plurality of methodologies may include one or more Agile
methodologies.

What does Hecksel intend to do with this patent? This is an interesting new wrinkle in the agile trend, and the first patent I'm aware of on the topic. Post your thoughts, and stay tuned for my full article on the panel in the SD Express show daily and on our website at www.sdmagazine.com.

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