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It goes to show that the poster idea

>Agile ideologues -> just doesn't lead to working software

it's a flawed idea; if you want to take agile core values all of them are focused on actually trying to reduce errors and improve quality [0].

On the other hand it's a very broad generalization, and leaves the open question "what does actually lead to working software?"

[0] http://www.agilemanifesto.org/




On a small point of order, I'm slightly worried that you might have read "idealogues" as a typo for "ideologies" - very much not the case! I very much meant idealogues.

I don't take much issue with the underlying ideas of the Agile manifesto - it's the ritualisation and thoughtlessness that it can lead to that irks me. The "anti Agile manifesto", many though its faults are, rings true in a lot of places, to my mind: "backlogs are really just to do lists" seems pretty much inarguable, for one.




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