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Really, control theory helped you understand Agile? Please, do go on. I would love to hear the specifics.
by bordercases 11y ago
Really, control theory helped you understand Agile? Please, do go on. I would love to hear the specifics.
- TeMPOraL 11y agoTL;DR: waterfall is an open-loop system. In order to control it (the direction of your project, its results), you need to have a perfect model of system internals and know the input. Since you know neither, you simply can't control it. Agile is a closed-loop system, it contains a feedback loop, which lets you control the system even if you don't know the internals perfectly (and with human beings, you'll never know). This is the core insight, though I'm probably skipping things in this description that you know implicitly when you've seen the math. The rest of discussion about agile is either minutiae of tuning the feedback loop for best results, or just marketing talk and bikeshedding.