Methodologies impose a disciplined process upon software development, more predictable and more efficient.

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Agile methods are adaptive rather than predictive. Engineering methods tend to try to plan out a large part of the software process in great detail for a long span of time, this works well until things change. So their nature is to resist change. The agile methods, however, welcome change. They try to be processes that adapt and thrive on change.

Agile methods are people-oriented rather than process oriented. The goal of engineering methods is to define a process that will work well, whoever happens to be using it. Agile methods assert that no process will ever make up the skill of the development team, so the role of a process is to support the development team in their work.