Agile methodologies can work, but it often requires a feature-centric deployment model, not deadline-centric. Having a fixed N-week deployment cycle can't simpl

Agile methodologies can work, but it often requires a feature-centric deployment model, not deadline-centric. Having a fixed N-week deployment cycle can't simply be applied to all products and expect it to work. I've found that an "Agile" approach can work quite well as long as you apply a healthy does of common sense to it. I think to often people forget that product management frameworks are there to create a common language and set exceptions, not blindly dictate exactly how one should operate.