AGILE, as mentioned in previous articles “AGILE Enough is Enough”, “AGILE Will Burn Your Arse”, is pure “Farty Floops” (a phrase coined by a good friend of mine ) as a fit for purpose approach to delivering large scale IT projects /programmes of work.
In the beginning, the scalability of AGILE methods was even questioned by some of the AGILE founding fathers and leading authors in this field.
Then the fees gravy train came and changed everything!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
The stratospheric popularity of the AGILE has kicked these concerns /potential weaknesses quietly under the carpet, where I fear they will stay until more money is lost on failed large scale IT projects /programmes of work.
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It would seem that my comments on a post listed on the blogg AGILE Advice where I expressed my views that AGILE methods seem to have moved on from a method designed to make small visual based projects fly (please see my post AGILE Enough is Enough and is now being considered as a scalable enterprise level solution is causing a bit of a “storm in a tea cup”.
Over the last few months I have seen a significant rise in consultancy requests from companies who are finding that AGILE as an enterprise level solution is massively increasing costs in many cases in exchange for lower quality delivery and often zero impact on the madness that is 70% to 92% annual UK IT project failure rates.
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Just read the following article from an AGILE evangelist blogg – Managing “Leaderful” Groups
This article made me really angry. It makes AGILE look like the Hippy Commune method for software development. “We can all be leaders, we are leaders we all work together for the common good etc etc” (sounds like new labour 
) and “Evil Managers as was rudely stated” have to be re-educated. Sounds like Pol Pot’s year zero. I KID YOU NOT there are Project Management training sites offering AGILE training entitled “how to project manage AGILE projects where you don’t have much to do.” CRAZIEST thing I have ever heard.
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During the week Computing Magazine, one of the best freebee computer magazines I know, dropped through the front door. All was going well until I reached the analysis section and Fig 1 :-
Fig 1 Government versus non-government adoption of AGILE
It states that AGILE another “No Pain High Gain” methodology is on the ascendance, and appears to be taking the intellectual high ground.
However, it looks to me like a suffocating fish trying to trash about in a useless attempt to find the next potential life saver. This trendily named method is nothing new, as I have come across it at various points throughout my IT career. However, in those days it was referred to as the SOP (Seat of the Pants) or JFDI (Just F***King Do It) development method. These names don’t sound so good do they? Such approaches to system development only work in a limited range of circumstance for systems of a particular type /level of complexity. In my view AGILE is nothing more than a posh word for hacking together software.
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