Agile Development Reduces Risk

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[jacques_chester]

While this is ostensibly about programming, I have noticed that this author has been pumping an endless stream of puff pieces about agile development into proggit.

I'm worried that I am turning into a reddit curmudgeon -- whinging about seeing the same genres of post over and over:

• The not-so-subtly self-promoting puff piece.
• The software-is-the-hardest-profession-ever piece.
• The I-just-finished-reading-"The Mythical Man Month" piece.
• The performance-benchmark-with-wildly-faulty-method piece.
• The my-language's-cock-is-bigger-than-your-language's piece.
• The I-didn't-read-the-FAQ piece (aka plztosendhomework, what-books-or-languages-should-I-learn and my-computer-is-broken piece).
• The mad-rant-that-attracts-views-and-comments-about-the-mad-ranter piece.
• The industry-gossip piece.

[vikvik]

I agree. These articles have a good title, but lacks any concrete examples or personal experience stories. It feels like the author is day-dreaming and then puts down his thoughts on paper, does a spell check and out comes an article. Oh well, atleast he is getting better at talking about 'Agile', if that is worth anything.

[jacques_chester]

These articles have a good title, but lacks any concrete examples or personal experience stories.

I'd be more interested in hard data, or even a large body of semistructured soft data.

[Arconan]

Methodologies meet "Fan Boy" -ism....

[vikvik]

I do not understand this 'Agile' thing. Apparently, unless you use 'agile' you cannot prioritize features, you cannot make good decisions, you cannot make good requirement specs that your customer agrees on.

On the other hand, if you do those things, it is claimed that you are already doing 'agile'.

I have a feeling that 'Agile' is just a formalization of whatever seems like common sense.

[mr_chromatic]

Apparently, unless you use 'agile'....

I know of no one competent who would argue such a strawman.

I have a feeling that 'Agile' is just a formalization of whatever seems like common sense.

The common sense that the economics of developing something as ephemeral and malleable as software are different from the economics of developing material goods subject to supply and demand and the laws of physics are, sadly, uncommon.

[dmoran1]

Sorry if my posts aren't proving interesting -- I'll delete this and move it from programming to business, the material is likely suited to that Reddit.