Nearly everywhere I've worked the quarterly earnings report is the problem. Due dates mean that time has to be managed so any attempt to use a methodology seems

Nearly everywhere I've worked the quarterly earnings report is the problem. Due dates mean that time has to be managed so any attempt to use a methodology seems to regress to some not fun way of developing software. In places I've worked without the pressure of the quarterly earnings report I've seen that developers tended to use whatever methodology worked best. It could be Agile, pair programming, or just walking over to each other's desks and talking on IM.