World's Biggest 'Agile' Software Project Close To Failure

Posted by Soulskill on Saturday May 25, 2013 @02:31AM from the be-careful-not-to-learn-anything-from-this dept.

00_NOP writes "'Universal Credit' — the plan to consolidate all Britain's welfare payments into one — is the world's biggest 'agile' software development project. It is now close to collapse, the British government admitted yesterday. The failure, if and when it comes, could cost billions and have dire social consequences. 'Some steps have been taken to try to rescue the project. The back end – the benefits calculation – has reportedly been shifted to a "waterfall" development process – which offers some assurances that the government at least takes its fiduciary duties seriously as it should mean no code will be deployed that has not been finished. The front end – the bit used by humans – is still meant to be “agile” – which makes some sense, but where is the testing? Agile is supposed to be about openness between developer and client and we – the taxpayers – are the clients: why can’t we see what our money is paying for?'"

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It is based on Linux.... by mystikkman · 2013-05-25 05:02 · Score: 0, Troll

The project is based on Linux... RedHat is a supplier. If it was based on .NET, the summary and the posters would claim that's the reason for failure and it would have been a success if it was based on Linux(see the London Stock Exchange story for hundreds of such comments modded up). So does that mean this project is failing because of Linux?
I don't think so, but all the bigoted hate and confirmation bias on Slashdot is amazing for sure.