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I'm curious whether it's the author's contention that the signatories of the Agile Manifesto thought that the ideas they were championing went back only a few y
by tome 6mo ago
I'm curious whether it's the author's contention that the signatories of the Agile Manifesto thought that the ideas they were championing went back only a few years, and they had no idea they went back at least 30. In particular
> All of these things were later claimed as Agile innovations
Are there some references that demonstrate that? [EDIT: that the signatories thought they were their own innovations]
And if so, is that a bad thing? Ideas are repeatedly rediscovered. This article isn't called "Saying goodbye to Royce, Bell and Thayer", and I'm wondering why not.
- eesmith 6mo agoYes, there is an entire narrative that first there was chaos, then there was waterfall, and then there was agile. For example, https://www.infoworld.com/article/2334751/a-brief-history-of-the-agile-methodology.html https://www.infoworld.com/article/2334751/a-brief-history-of... It's as if people believed that all the microcomputing software of the 1970s and 1980s, from VisiCalc to Zork to the Macintosh, was done by waterfall design.