> The manifesto’s authors may have looked like textbook engineers, in button-downs with cell-phone holsters, but “a bigger group of organizational anarchists wo

> The manifesto’s authors may have looked like textbook engineers, in button-downs with cell-phone holsters, but “a bigger group of organizational anarchists would be hard to find,” according to Jim Highsmith. The word "anarchists" fits in its purest sense of tossing the org chart. Yet its common meaning of "bomb thrower" hardly applies. I typically describe Agile as "A small, stable cadre of ninjas getting it done." Projects wind up with too much scope, a revolving-door staff, and a dearth of wizards to cut through the technical thicket. The discussion of "tech debt vs. 'green field' projects" minimizes the threat of legacy code/data to any agile effort. We need to talk about a "software archaeologist" specialty where one tries to plow through a mound of garbage left by the predecessors and seeks to figure out what prescriptions their therapists had written for them.