By bloid
via blog.tmorris.net
Published: Nov 16 2008 / 16:30
Agile is not a religion, however, both Agile and religions are non-ideas. Also referred to as the third value of the propositional truth trichotomy, “not even false”, non-terminating computation, the bottom value, unfalsifiable, or if you prefer, outright nonsense. All religions and Agile (and Scrum and REST and SOA and… need I go on?) fall into this broader category. It might be healthy to call this category “religion”, but many observers - at least in my dealings - won’t understand why you have shifted to this consistent definition.
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zone_reader replied ago:
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".
jkelvie replied ago:
I agree with the author....but this is absurdly poorly written.
newton_dave replied ago:
*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.
zone_reader replied ago:
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.
nadnerb replied ago:
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.
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