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Detecting Agile BS [pdf]

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There is some good intentions here, but just because you do buzzword bingo it does not mean you are 'agile', and it does not mean you are bring value. And desktop / web apps are a lot different than weapons systems. The 'dark ages' of software engineering are in our immediate future. We will be able to make crappy systems very quickly that we require constantly throwing them away and starting again. Eventually software will consume every dollar of every development budget, and some sanity will prevail.

Re: Detecting Agile BS [pdf]

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There is some good intentions here, but just because you do buzzword bingo it does not mean you are 'agile', and it does not mean you are bring value. And desktop / web apps are a lot different than weapons systems. The 'dark ages' of software engineering are in our immediate future. We will be able to make crappy systems very quickly that we require constantly throwing them away and starting again. Eventually softwa…

agile is an infection brought on by its highly viral proponents that dilutes what words mean into babel-like nonsense that they exclusively control and [re]define on a treadmill to bill at consulting prices.