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Re:Why do some developers consider Agile development to be n... by outsidetheparty on Monday April 13, 2015 @09:58AM (#9367592)
>Agile development is about making connections to your team members: individuals and interactions over process and tools.

See, this kind of vague, fuzzy feel-good description is exactly why it seems to me that the one thing everyone seems to agree on about Agile is that everyone else is doing it incorrectly.

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Re:Why do some developers consider Agile development to be n... by ddoolin on Monday April 13, 2015 @10:18AM (#9367731)
Agreed. I'd like to see some solid experiences that counter the author's claims being used in the wild that fit where he says it doesn't work well (anything other than small, short projects). Nearly everyone is taking the "it's not us, it's you!" approach.

A lot of things work well in theory. That doesn't really make them good ideas if they can almost-never be implemented properly.

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Re:Why do some developers consider Agile development to be n... by Nizumzen on Monday April 13, 2015 @11:59AM (#9368366)
Yeah. Communism is great in theory as well. It doesn't work though.
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Re:Why do some developers consider Agile development to be n... by geometricalgebr on Monday April 13, 2015 @12:19PM (#9368511)
That's literally the first line of the agile manifesto. If that isn't agile, then agile is completely meaningless.
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