A Manglish Way of Working: Agile Software Development

In the early years of this century, a style of software development dubbed "Agile" moved from an underground practice to one sufficiently respectable to be written up in the mainstream business press. From my perspective as an insider in that movement and a dilettante in science studies, I claim that the Agile style of work is readily and satisfyingly described by the terminology of The Mangle of Practice. But that's not the main point of this chapter. The reason I am an Agile advocate is that the manglish style of work just suits certain people. Agile projects allow those people to be happy at work instead of bitter, cynical, and discouraged. Quite likely, others would like to work manglishly. I hope they will benefit from learning how it is we software developers get away with it.

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