Re: The flavor of the day; was: Agile development, user stories, etc.

["Gene Kim-Eng" <techwr -at- genek -dot- com>]

Fads are human nature.  I'm sure most of us who have been through a few decades 
on the job can think of various "next big things" through the years that might 
have found their niches if appropriately used but which vanished from the 
landscape after being haphazardly applied to everything in sight and producing 
some spectacularly bad failures that ruined their images.  I have my own list of 
things I have seen do this and things I think I will be seeing do it, and I'm 
sure my list is different from everyone else's.  The bottom line is, it is 
possible to make any methodology fail, either by using it badly or by using it 
when you shouldn't.

Gene Kim-Eng


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "David Neeley" <dbneeley -at- gmail -dot- com>
> There are many others, though, that apply these methodologies with little
> insight. These types often simply want to be thought of as "cool" or
> "cutting edge"--but they often create frustration at the very least, both in
> their organization and, too often, among their customers.

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