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"Prince2 Agile" is a thing now.
Dave Slusher - SFFH@bruces I lived through the eXtreme Programming era. It was just like faith healing. If you tried it and it worked, hooray for you as better and more moral than those other losers. If it didn't work for you it was because you did it wrong. These were the only possible outcomes.
Agile is just XP without foam on its lips.
Loren Kohnfelder@geniodiabolico @bruces What you said about eXtreme Programming sure sounds like vibe coding, and the name is fitting.
@lmk @bruces There were sensible parts, like 100% automated test coverage. I also had an XP practitioner tell me he knew at a glance a code file was bad because it had comments in it. "If it were properly written, it would be self-documenting and wouldn't need comments!" That's the day I knew XP was not for me.
The Right Irreverend@bruces This type of thinking has been around for years. My BA in Religious Studies came in real handy when I went into software engineering. These fads or fashions seemed to be more religious than science as they seemed to be adopted more from emotions than reason. Working for a computer company in the 70’s run by a cult (est) cemented this observation for me.
Brian Marick@bruces I suspect this is another case of software exceptionalism. We’re not uniquely bad, flatteringly romantic though that may be.
Maybe it’s just that we’re faster. Teat-stripping as a treatment for mastitis goes in and out of style (if I remember what my wife told me right), just at a slower pace.
Indeed, Collins’ /The Sociology of Philosophies/¹ shows a similar pattern of change, just at a generational timescale.