Agile in itself is not a development methodology - it's a communication one. A small team working on a stealth R&D project, where everyone is same rank and in the same boat, would be suicidal to use Agile. This is what Kanban is for.
Agile is an overhead. It doesn't make things faster, or more efficient, quite the opposite. It's there to avoid arbitrary deadlines coming from the management and developers not working on an island, with no visibility. That's a recipe for some nasty surprises. "But we thought you were working on THAT and it would be ready NOW!"
Agile is an overhead. It doesn't make things faster, or more efficient, quite the opposite. It's there to avoid arbitrary deadlines coming from the management and developers not working on an island, with no visibility. That's a recipe for some nasty surprises. "But we thought you were working on THAT and it would be ready NOW!"