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Re:Book Review: "Tidy First?" By Kent Beck by PaulHoule on Monday April 01, 2024 @05:28PM (#39899590)
It's semi-reasonable. The individual parts are reasonable but putting it together to create a branded methodology™ which is "my way or the highway" was the beginning of the agile-industrial complex as we know it.

You might make the case that Kent Back has actually put together two lines of code and run a compiler (even started JUnit) and the thousands of imitators who talk just like Kent Beck haven't, but if you're going to be critical of the agile-industrial complex you have to be critical of the founder too, who created a toxic style of discourse and a piratical business model of agile consulting.

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Re:Book Review: "Tidy First?" By Kent Beck by jdlshore on Tuesday April 02, 2024 @09:59AM (#39905847)
The agile-industrial complex came from Scrum and its certified trainers, and its imitators such as SaFE, not Kent Beck and XP. Kent disappeared for a while to raise goats in Oregon, then worked for Facebook and other companies (as an employee). He’s the last person you should be blaming for what Agile’s become.
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