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I waited a respectful moment or two before asking him why he was adding canned chili to his chili. They both said it tasted terrible, but, as my dad now-famously observed: "You can start with dog shit, and if you add enough chili, you get chili."
Similarly, if you start with an Agile Methodology, and you add enough hard work, you get a bunch of work done. Go figure.
But that's a tautology; you can substitute anything you like for "Agile Methodology" and it's still true. It's probably not difficult to find people who believe that Feng Shui has brought them success in their projects for years. Or throwing pennies in fountains. Heck, there are probably some people who practice witchcraft to help their projects out, and a great many of those projects — probably the majority — wind up being successful.
If you do a rain dance for enough days in a row, it will eventually work. Guaranteed.
So I'm not saying Agile doesn't work. It does work! But it's plain, unadulterated superstition.
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“”” I waited a respectful moment or two before asking him why he was adding canned chili to his chili. They both said it tasted terrible, but, as my dad now-famously observed: "You can start with dog shit, and if you add enough chili, you get chili."
Similarly, if you start with an Agile Methodology, and you add enough hard work, you get a bunch of work done. Go figure.
But that's a tautology; you can substitute anything you like for "Agile Methodology" and it's still true. It's probably not difficult to find people who believe that Feng Shui has brought them success in their projects for years. Or throwing pennies in fountains. Heck, there are probably some people who practice witchcraft to help their projects out, and a great many of those projects — probably the majority — wind up being successful.
If you do a rain dance for enough days in a row, it will eventually work. Guaranteed.
So I'm not saying Agile doesn't work. It does work! But it's plain, unadulterated superstition. “””
Off topic, but thanks for the link.