Agile project failure rate

[NickFitz]

Interesting find Nick - a great example of how they take a simple concept (appropriate unit testing) and making it sound revolutionary and exciting.
I always did like the "Worstward Ho" quote though.

I have found the quote now, and it is in fact "TerminationCanBeSuccess" (on page 103, in case you find yourself in a bookshop soon).

Ah yes, that phrase ultimately leads to EarlyCancellationIsSuccess on the wiki.

To be honest I've never been fully convinced by the XP thing, although admittedly I haven't worked on an XP project.

I have worked on projects where agile (Scrum, to be precise) is done correctly, though (in fact I'm working on one now) and it definitely can be successful.