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Apr 07The Great Pyramid of Agile
by in Alex's Soapbox on 2007-05-24UPDATE from Alex of 2012: Ouch. In retrospect, this article is pretty awful. The author (the Alex of 2007) had been largely mis-informed by charlatans: those Agilistas who claim "agile" was a goal of the development organization that was achieved by consuming only small amounts of the business domain at a time (hence the flawed pyramid analogy).
Five years later, it turns out Agile is not that at all. It is a business mindset that requires the business to think smaller and sooner; only after that can the development organizaiton adopt smaller, sooner changes. Hopefully, five years from now, this will just be the way that all software is developed.