"How many looked at the randomized controlled studies that provided evidence that agile was better than your current process?" she asked.

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https://archive.fo/QpMzi :

Agile development exposed as techie superstition • The Register

'If you use care in framing your hypothesis and in designing your small, frequent tests, she suggested, your organisation will improve over time. '

'"How many looked at the randomized controlled studies that provided evidence that agile was better than your current process?" she asked. '

'Rising, a consultant, author and COO of The Hillside Group, asked for a show of hands from anyone doing some flavour of agile development. '

'At DevOps-focused London conference Continuous Lifecycle* today, Linda Rising challenged the superstition of tech professionals, a group that ought to have some affinity for science. '

'Rising encouraged those exploring new ways of working to involve others, to tell stories about their small experiments. '

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ONE WEEK REFACTOR CYCLE. REBUILD THE SYSTEM FROM THE GROUND UP EVERY FUCKIN' WEEK.

....yeah, pass.

Agile is just a buzzword to mean

1. We don't Design

2. We don't Document

3. We BARELY Test

4. And the part management loves the most: EVERYTHING IS PRIORITY ONE

And only the biggest hourly consultant incel douchebags think you get a better product out the back end of this horse.

The IRON Triangle

• Good

• Fast

• Cheap

Pick AT MOST 2. - entropy declares you can get none.

The Houses of Parliament uses agile development.

@acheron2012 - your comments, just class! :)

And so it goes. All development processes come with a lot of hype, but the claims of productivity gains never seem to have any kind of robust analysis behind them. The studies always seem self-serving where some outcome is desired by participants and researchers. You would expect that a bunch of techies could do better than sociology academics, but seem to fall into the same pitfalls.