The latest silver bullet
Sorry to be a naysayer but having used agile on several projects I don't find it to be the silver bullet that it's cracked up to be. The assertion that repeated rework and lack of design are things that make developers more effective is clearly misguided. Initially agile just puts lots of pressure on developers to deliver very fast and at the expense of quality. Then when they get used to it they learn to pad their quotes with huge margins for error sometimes five times the reasonable estimate so that each task becomes an epic and is split across many sprints but guess what, they always deliver at the end of the sprint. I find very few project managers or executives in higher management who are willing to subject their time to the same scrutiny that developers have to put up with in Agile. As for the comments on Prince methodology the author clearly has no idea what this is about since Agile methodologies can sit quite happily within the Prince framework.
The reason Agile has been so eagerly adopted is that it is the latest flavour of the month and to be anti Agile is to be anti progressive, not a career enhancing stance for most programmers. This silver bullet like many before it will disappear into the mists of time, another failed solution for overrunning IT projects. Good projects are delivered through good project management not by the latest development fad.
