For the past 5 years agile development mantra have been drilled into programmers heads and great, now the meme says “no, it’s not working” (read: Decline and Fall of Agile Development)

Do you know what this means?

  • A new round of books written why Agile wasn’t that good anyway.
  • A replacement for Agile Development is imminent. How about Kaizen for software development?
  • A new round of books about how Kaizen is different from Agile development methodology and why the authors used it and it works 10 times better than Agile (and it’s based on Toyota lean manufacturing system – which makes lots of good cars, with robots!).

 

And the cycle goes on and on. We are all fashionistas, changing fads and fashion every a couple of years.