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Why Agile Will Never Go Away
It’s a perpetual money making machine for the evangelists, practitioners, and “leading voices” of LinkedIn.
I thought it was about time we got back to agile as, for reasons that will become apparent if you venture deeper into the quagmire of this missive, it’s still here, in the room with us right now, and it just will not go away.
“Careful now”, as Father Dougal might say, I don’t want to give the wrong impression that I’m somehow impressed by the agile methodology and may, even for a moment, think that it’s a remotely good idea in the Grand Game of Software Engineering. Oh no. Definitely not.
Indeed, if you’ve read any of my previous comments even tangentially referring to the agile process then you’ll know full well where I stand on that particular matter.
Suffice it to say that if I had to say just one thing about the agile process, when I’m inevitably called upon to debate it on TV or something, I’d simply point to how it’s laughingly described as “people before process” when, if you’ve had the misfortune to experience it and its many rolled up shirt sleeves, dry wipe marker in hand, evangelists, it’s totally the other way around.
But, as you may have noticed from the continual debate about it if you’ve accidentally opened LinkedIn, got trapped in the company kitchen with literally any…
