"Agile Methods The Good, the Hype and the Ugly," Bertrand Meyer

Why HN readers recommended it

HN recommends it as a sober critique of agile, though one commenter found it mixed.

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Video & recommendation details

Creator / channel

Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)

Topic

agile software methods

Format

talk

Level

intermediate

HN recommenders in dataset

2

HN mentions in dataset

4

Recommendation years in dataset

2018–2024

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From the original HN conversations

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• Here are some of my favorites: How To Design A Good API and Why it Matters [LINK] Agile Methods The Good, the Hype and the Ugly [VIDEO]

• Agile/Scrum in limited doses to aspects of Software Development is basically common sense. Applying it mechanically to the entire Product/Project Development life cycle is dumb. The "Agile Manifesto" is just well known platitudes. Agile!: The Good, the Hype and the Ugly by Bertrand Meyer is …

• What you say has been well known and that is why techniques like Barry Boehm's "Spiral Model" - [LINK] were invented long ago. But "Incremental Design"/"Refactoring" as practiced by XP/Agile/Scrum crowd is not that at all. It is giving up on "Upfront Design" altogether because …