Developing Agile Methodologies for Algorithm Products What is city talk? Nic is Technical Lead at WeFarm Modern software methodologies have some catching up to do to accommodate data science practitioners. It was the early 2000s when The Agile Manifesto marked a step toward a more humane direction for software engineering by placing an emphasis on stakeholder collaboration and rapid feedback. This evolved into prescriptive frameworks like Scrum and Kanban that made these ideals achievable through a set of simple (albeit difficult) roles and processes. They largely serve to mediate interactions with engineers and have become industry standards because they’re effective.