It Takes 6 Days to Change 1 Line of Code (2015)

Re:It Takes 6 Days to Change 1 Line of Code (2015) by Pxtl on Tuesday December 06, 2016 @08:39PM (#13119848)

Agile isn't about developer comfort, its about the fact that nobody knows what they want until they see it and decide that they hate everything about it. It's about the fact that requirements are made of mercury. E-signatures on specs aren't worth the e-paper they're written on, and the stakeholders want it yesterday with today's changes to the requirements.

Agile isn't a process so much as it is conceding defeat on the very concept of process.

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Re:It Takes 6 Days to Change 1 Line of Code (2015) by cestith on Wednesday December 07, 2016 @11:57AM (#13123978)

I like the mercury metaphor. Here's a another one for Agile.: Don't build a stone fortress for a nomadic tribe.

If someone wants to give you a full specification and stick to it, you can build something fully specified. If they give you a vague idea that will change a lot, build them as little as necessary and make it flexible enough to change with the idea. If your code's going along for the trip, it may as well be easy to pack.

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