Good Agile, Bad Agile
Steve Yegge has written a long but entertaining rant on the problems with the “Agile” programming fad, as well as providing a fascinating look inside Google culture.
You know. Chumps. That’s the word I’m looking for. My bad-cholesterol view was that Agile Methodologies are for chumps.
But I’ve had a lot of opportunity to observe various flavors of Agile-ism in action lately, and I now think I was only about 90% right. It turns out there’s a good kind of Agile, although it’s taken me a long time to be able to see it clearly amidst all the hype and kowtowing and moaning feverishly about scrums and whatnot. I have a pretty clear picture of it now.
