When Agile Projects Go Bad

blackbearnh writes "CIO Magazine has an article up looking at some of the ways that Agile projects can fail, or Agile can be misapplied in organizations. Some of the issues raised may not be new, but folks might want to pay special attention to these, since the people throwing the stones are two of the original Agile Manifesto signatories, Alistair Cockburn and Kent Brock. From the article: 'Once individuals become familiar with Agile, either through training or practice, they can become inflexible and intolerant of people new to the process. Cockburn has seen this in action. "I'm one of the authors of the manifesto, so if I say something 'weird,' they can't tell me I don't understand Agile. But if someone else — and it doesn't matter how many years of experience they have — says something funny, they get told they don't understand Agile."'" Here's another recent article by the same author on the perils now besetting Agile.

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[sneakyimp]

Gimme a break. 'Agile Programming' is just an appallingly pretentious buzzword describing a myopic development process which misappropriates components built by other people to a task they were never intended to solve. I.e., a circle jerk running down a blind alley, smearing lipstick on a colossal pig with terminal cancer.

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