▲ 422 ▼ Study finds 268% higher failure rates for Agile software projects (www.theregister.com) submitted 2 years ago by ylai@lemmy.ml to c/programming@programming.dev 135 comments fedilink hide all child comments
[–] atzanteol@sh.itjust.works 37 points 2 years ago (2 children) The very first mistake most people make when reading the agile manifesto is that "a over b" means "don't do b". permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 4 child comments replies: [–] prof@infosec.pub 13 points 2 years ago 100% that. Especially that working software over comprehensive documentation part, which can be automated so easily if done right. There's so much value in TDD and providing a way to do integration and automated UI tests early on in a project, yet none of the companies I've worked at made use of it. Also automated documentation tools like Swagger are almost criminally underutilised. permalink fedilink source parent [–] peg@lemmy.world 1 point 2 years ago The other mistake everyone makes is "agile = faster and cheaper" . This results in corner cutting and unreasonable deadlines. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] prof@infosec.pub 13 points 2 years ago 100% that. Especially that working software over comprehensive documentation part, which can be automated so easily if done right. There's so much value in TDD and providing a way to do integration and automated UI tests early on in a project, yet none of the companies I've worked at made use of it. Also automated documentation tools like Swagger are almost criminally underutilised. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] peg@lemmy.world 1 point 2 years ago The other mistake everyone makes is "agile = faster and cheaper" . This results in corner cutting and unreasonable deadlines. permalink fedilink source parent