World Of Agile

Over the years, Agile methodologies have taken the heat when they appear to have failed to deliver expected benefits to an organization. If our project fails, the tendency is that “we must blame the Agile process and our practices in some way for this”. Agile is not a magic stick to save a failing project and bring immediate results. It lets you uncover better ways of developing software by doing it and helping others do it. As with all development methods, the skill and experience of users determine the degree of success and/or abuse of such activity. So sometimes we obtain the agility by making up our own variation of this methodology. In this case, failure of this project should largely be incumbent upon us for deciding to sacrifice the practices we chose to ignore and the new ones we added.  Some are Agile while just for namesake, and following no methodology, just cherry-picking a couple of practices here and there, and picking the principles they like. ...