Originally posted by BlasterBates
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That article is terrible
The guy has clearly never worked on a project that could legitimately be called anything like agile.
He keeps on criticising 'the agile methodology' where no such thing exists.
In that context it all makes perfect sense - he is seeing poor results because because he learned this imaginary 'agile methodology' from some snake-oil salesman and is hoping to achieve agility by following some shrink-wrapped 'Agile' ready meal recipe.
What the heck is this massive defect backlog he keeps banging on about? If there's a massive defect backlog they're doing something wrong, and assuming he's talking about a Scrum team then this :
What is dangerous, though, is that focusing on continuous delivery has the effect of creating an unmanageable defect backlog while developers work to put something in front of the customer.
The principle he's alluding to in the manifesto actually reads
Working software over comprehensive documentation
The guy's probably just done a CSM cert and now thinks he knows 'Agile' (that imaginary methodology ). I've seen it enough to be sick of it - presumably like Dave Thomas has.
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