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ahh agile, what every tech company likes to say they adhere to.

the church of agile. yet it feels to deliver good quality software on predictable timelines.

agile is simply a way to cover management's ass and shift blame to programmers or other stakeholders. worse more with microservices or more appropriately "distributed monoliths" you can easily shift the blame to - the other team has been blocking our progress since we need an api they provide.

seen this playout so many times at $lastjob.




Is that such a bad idea:

> 37. (Henshaw's Law) One key to success in a mission is establishing clear lines of blame.


Image delivering a race car to a customer via Agile, starting with first delivering a bicycle




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