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Any good idea given to a mob becomes absurd. Mob tends to take anything to extreme (extreme programming :)), make religion out of anything. Of course Agile is not science, it lacks math to make it so. It is craft, art or, in extreme cases, religion. In 10 minutes brainstorm session you can come up with alternative methodologies that (combined with real experience) will work just as good: no-bullshit programming, common-sense programming, etc., and start your own "revolution".

I agree with the author....but this is absurdly poorly written.

*Yawn*

A say-nothing article cawing that "agile is falling like religions" (unlike all those other software development methodologies that are creating bug-free applications that are precisely what the customer wants) while, somehow, completely overlooking that just like every other idea "agile" (which is, somehow, one entity, though the article also claims otherwise) has its own valuable practices.

I am not sure it is falling. But if it is then it's rather "like all those other software development methodologies that ...". All of them have some positive and good portion of bs. Btw, it's nothing to do with delivering bug free code. Good companies had done it long before Agile, like 20-30 years ago. They also produced modular and reusable even before OO. Don't take me wrong - I am not completely against Agile - but everything's good in moderation.

Wouldn't it have been more appropriate to link to the James Shore post mentioned than this article. This article is full of nothing and a waste of space, at least the original piece at http://blog.tmorris.net/agile-is-falling-like-religions-do/ is readable and has some decent points.