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  • Is Agile Development a Failing Concept?

    Agile is a popular software development methodology.

    But how well does Agile work? Is it failing us?

    And: how can we do better?

    Andy Hunt argue[s] that Agile has some serious issues. Specifically, Hunt thinks a lot of developers out there simply aren’t adaptable and curious enough to enact Agile in its ideal form.

    ‘Agile methods ask practitioners to think, and frankly, that’s a hard sell,’ Hunt wrote. ‘It is far more comfortable to simply follow what rules are given and claim you’re ‘doing it by the book.”

    [Source: Slashdot]

    See also Agile software development.