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Ask HN: Is Agile that good?
Everytime someone is arguing that Agile sucks, the answer is always: your are doing Agile wrong.
So Agile is the only best methodology ?
- al2o3cr 9y agoThere isn't even one "agile" to be the "best": if you're following one exactly because of that then you are Doing It Wrong. Compare code: there's no "only best" way to structure your code, but most everybody would agree that a 3000-line long "main" function with one-letter-named global variables is probably Doing It Wrong.
- eesmith 9y agoAt one level agile is a set of aspirations, akin to "do the right thing." It's not a specific description of right things. Therefore, it's almost impossible to say that a project is really agile, or just taking on the trappings of agile without "really" understanding it. What usually happens is that the successful ones are called agile, and those that failed aren't. This is the No True Scotsman fallacy. While dated, I still recommend "Rapid Development" as a great source for describing the variety of development practices that you might use.
- mindcrime 9y agoThere is no such thing as "Agile". Or to put it another way, "Agile is not a methodology".