Your example posits an evil developer with a BOFH mindset. S/he is trying very hard to get away with doing as little work as possible while meeting absolute mi

Your example posits an evil developer with a BOFH mindset. S/he is trying very hard to get away with doing as little work as possible while meeting absolute minimum requirements. I know that you are parodying the Agile mindset but any philosophical framework within which you make software has edges. We try to not make them count by having good hiring practices. I'll be the first to grant you that hiring is an unsolved problem in software development.