It looks obvious

The rest of us have all known that Agile Methodologies are stupid, by application of any of the following well-known laws of marketing:
- anything that calls itself a “Methodology” is stupid, on general principle.
- anything that requires “evangelists” and offers seminars, exists soley for the purpose of making money.
- anything that never mentions any competition or alternatives is dubiously self-serving.
- anything that does diagrams with hand-wavy math is stupid, on general principle.
And by “stupid”, I mean it’s “incredibly brilliant marketing targeted at stupid people.”

Agile programming , with its many different flavors, become more than just a buzz word. As many positive solutions Agile development has its advantages when applied in the right environment and when solving specific projects. However as many “silver bullets” it has its problems.

Steve Yegge’s witty and thought provoking post discussing some of these weaknesses. But it does more than just that, it suggesting an alternative: its current work environment at Google. It isn’t short post, and with the discussion that follows the post it is actually very long - but it is worth the time.

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