James Shore: The Decline and Fall of Agile

My friend James Shore has declared agile to be in decline. He cites the many teams doing 'sprints' and stand-up meetings, without adopting any of the technical practices necessary to produce high-quality software over the long-haul. In his estimation, this has led to thousands of Scrum teams doing agile so poorly that they will almost certainly fail, and possibly take the agile movement with them.

I found the article interesting, and so I wrote this article about it on InfoQ.

Cheers,

Chris

Comments

[Artem Marchenko]

I do agree that the problem exists, but I don't agree with the "Decline and Fall" conclusion. Quite vice versa, I believe the agile is flourishing nowadays.. even though many implementations are not as good as they could potentially be: http://agilesoftwaredevelopment.com/blog/artem/rise-and-flourishing-agile