> In fact, I think that scrum's failure showed us that projects (what scrum apologists try to disregard as "waterfall") are the way to develop software. Ye I h

> In fact, I think that scrum's failure showed us that projects (what scrum apologists try to disregard as "waterfall") are the way to develop software. Ye I have come to this conclusion too. I am not even reading "waterfall" as a pejorative anymore after all the agile I have had to endure. "Every time I hear about software maintenance as a distinct activity, I cringe." The author seem to suggest that never ending agile grind is the way to go and that programs can't be more or less done. Maybe he is doing Cloud™ stuff SaaS, where ongoing costs are a feuture not a bug.