In fact, agile has been extremely successful.

It's the people that claim to "do agile" that invariably don't do it. But software development used to fail most of the time, and it doesn't do that anymore.

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scorpioxy 2 hours ago | parent | next [-]

What makes you say that it has been extremely successful? And when you say doesn't fail anymore, do you mean it doesn't go over budget and/or changes scope?

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Turskarama an hour ago | parent [-]

Agile cannot go over budget or scope because those are failures of planning. Agile is the methodology that was developed specifically to counteract those problems with planning. Projects that use Agile can go over budget and scope but they never do that because they are using Agile, rather they use Agile because they might do that.

	▲	sevenzero 38 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		It always felt like Agile is the lazy attempt of people unwilling to learn what it takes to build software, to make it more predictable. Unfortunately project planning methods that work for buildings are not really great for software. It's just corpo stuff project managers do to feel meaningful.

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s-lambert 40 minutes ago | parent | prev | next [-]

It used to fail once after a long time, now software fails a lot every 2 weeks.

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philipswood 29 minutes ago | parent | prev [-]

Waterfall was also extremely successful.

People who failed just did it wrong. /s