In fact, agile has been extremely successful.
It's the people that claim to "do agile" that invariably don't do it. But software development used to fail most of the time, and it doesn't do that anymore.
In fact, agile has been extremely successful.
It's the people that claim to "do agile" that invariably don't do it. But software development used to fail most of the time, and it doesn't do that anymore.
What makes you say that it has been extremely successful? And when you say doesn't fail anymore, do you mean it doesn't go over budget and/or changes scope?
Agile cannot go over budget or scope because those are failures of planning. Agile is the methodology that was developed specifically to counteract those problems with planning. Projects that use Agile can go over budget and scope but they never do that because they are using Agile, rather they use Agile because they might do that.
It always felt like Agile is the lazy attempt of people unwilling to learn what it takes to build software, to make it more predictable. Unfortunately project planning methods that work for buildings are not really great for software. It's just corpo stuff project managers do to feel meaningful.
It used to fail once after a long time, now software fails a lot every 2 weeks.
They cloned one true scottsmann in the end..
If the idea does not compute with human nature, the idea is flawed, its basis the knowledge of human nature is non-existent and thus it had no place in reality after all..
Hmm that reminds me of what some people say about communism :)
Waterfall was also extremely successful.
People who failed just did it wrong. /s