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It's only "sweeping hyperbolic pseudo religious" if you discard the facts that ARE there: http://www.ambysoft.com/surveys/agileFebruary2008.html#Figure1 http://
by sarbogast 15y ago
It's only "sweeping hyperbolic pseudo religious" if you discard the facts that ARE there: http://www.ambysoft.com/surveys/agileFebruary2008.html#Figure1 http://www.ambysoft.com/surveys/agileFebruary2008.html#Figur...
Scott Ambler has been running these surveys for a few years now, and they are consistent. In 2010, agile and iterative methodologies (that include RUP, which is rybbish I agree, but looking at the facts here) lead to +10% in success rate compared to ad-hoc or waterfall.
But now you are going to tell me Scott Ambler is one of these agile consultants preaching for his own church, right?
- plinkplonk 15y agoHeh, If you consider some surveys run by a methodology consultant to be the only "evidence" you have of the superiority of said methodology, then you just proved my point better than I ever could. Thank You! PS: You really should get a stats education, so you can properly judge (and see through) such shaky "evidence"
- sarbogast 15y agoYour total absence of humility and your absolute disrespect for field people like Ambler and Poppendieck are simply staggering. I wish you luck.
- gruseom 15y agoI'll pipe up for Plink. Yeah, he's caustic about this, but he has a lot of experience with Agile (including some of the prominent names) and what he's saying is based on observation. Also, he's more of a "field people" than the consultants you mention. I'm not defending rudeness, but his exasperation is something I understand. It's the exasperation of a good programmer with management bullshit.
- akkartik 15y ago"It's only "sweeping hyperbolic pseudo religious" if you discard the facts that ARE there." No need for that. All he asked for was a citation; nobody's 'discarding' anything.