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

[ChicagoDave]

Even with agile, modeling the business and documenting requirements is still important.

The difference is that 30 years ago we’d spend 6 months defining requirements in functional and detailed requirements and the larger the problem, the more fragile those documents became.

And proper story development is hard. Most “agile” implementations don’t bother to get stories “completed”. It’s an afterthought.

Agile works very well if you actually do it well.

[FeistySkink → ChicagoDave]

Am I misreading this as a No true Scotsman?

[ChicagoDave → FeistySkink]

In fifteen years I’ve only seen agile done well twice.

I mostly agree it has become a failure.

I think the measurements of success become suspect as a project grows in size and complexity.

A better way to succeed regardless of pm method is making sure you reduce complexity and scope of any given project.