Joel- Agile Again

October 12, 2005:
"(The nattering scorekeepers of the BDUF/Agile beauty contest are now thoroughly confused. "Was that a vote for BDUF? Or Agile? What does he want? Can't he just take sides for once?!")"

Given that this method is almost word for word what is done in Planning Extreme Programming, I would say this is Agile. :-)

Big design up front isn't just about designing all of the features at once, you could still slip into doing iterations that are too big. And you could do 50 pages of UML models for a small iteration as well.