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The alternative is the way that software was successfully developed and delivered for the decades prior to the existence of the Agile manifesto, and the softwar
by g051051 5y ago
The alternative is the way that software was successfully developed and delivered for the decades prior to the existence of the Agile manifesto, and the software that was successfully developed and delivered in the time between when the manifesto was written and when it start infecting the software development industry. In other words, just look at literally any other software product created and delivered before 2001, and up until about 2008 or so.
- jboy55 5y agoSo... some process that wasn't agile... that had no name, no principles... but it worked! Was this a singular process, that everyone just 'knew'? Or did every company have their own, that varied in principles and effectiveness. What if a group of people sat down and tried studying what worked and what didn't... say in the .. 2001 time frame, I wonder what they would come up with.
- g051051 5y agoWell, since they came up with "Agile", it's pretty clear they didn't actually survey what worked and what didn't. They were consultants selling methodologies, and came up with something that was so poorly defined and difficult to implement that it gave them consulting jobs for life. Much better and easier than actually developing software!
- rramadass 5y ago>They were consultants selling methodologies, and came up with something that was so poorly defined and difficult to implement that it gave them consulting jobs for life The dark truth behind Agile's origins. You simply cannot implement anything based on what they had written since nothing was defined concretely; everything was a platitude.