On: Study finds 268% higher failure rates for Agile so...

[lioeters]

"Ensuring the thing never fails" is a question of having plenty of tests, which can be practiced as part of an Agile methodology. In fact, it sounds more agile to write tests while (or before) you develop a feature.

[VikingCoder → lioeters]

Sure, if the Product Owners get that.

"Let's slow down development and make sure we've written enough tests" is a phrase I haven't heard too often in Agile.

[lioeters → VikingCoder]

That's very true. Same with refactoring, there's never any time set aside to clean up and reorganize the code after it's written.