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Re:Agile is a Sham by wissler on Wednesday March 28, 2012 @08:10PM (#3769000)
Glad to see disdain for "agile" is finally becoming mainstream. Now, it may be that someone writing rote software should follow a process, but for anyone doing anything actually innovative, you can't get into their head and tell them what process they must follow, whether waterfall or agile. It's like telling Michelangelo the process for sculpting.

Rather than teaching people processes, they should help foster better ways of actually thinking about the code itself. E.g., learning new programming languages and frameworks gives one a variety of perspectives to think about code from.

Re:Agile is a Sham by Drbble on Thursday March 29, 2012 @01:47AM (#3769804)
Mocking Agile strawman has been a pop pastime since Yegge wrote Good Agile Bad Agile years ago.
Re:Agile is a Sham by wpietri on Thursday March 29, 2012 @03:35AM (#3770145)
I think you can't effectively impose process, but I do think that good teams can happily decide what process they're going to follow. Which is how we got Extreme Programming in the first place.
Re:Agile is a Sham by wissler on Tuesday April 10, 2012 @12:16AM (#3820657)
Why stop at teams? How about "good departments happily deciding"? Or "good companies happily deciding"? Or "good nations happily deciding"?