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The Mythical Man Month - Fred Brooks It is amazing how this book can be interpreted as having predicted the necessity of Agile/DevOps long before the tooling w

• mtVessel 10y ago
  Brooks' view is much more closely aligned with Boehm's Spiral Model than with Agile. He valued an overarching design that satisfied all stakeholders before construction. He also recommended a top-down approach to iteration, which means prototyping the entire system with each iteration, in successive degrees of refinements. I find that very different than picking features to implement with each sprint. He also found PERT charts to be invaluable, and I can't imagine he would find Kanban boards a sufficient substitute.