> Nate Duehr wrote:
> 
> > The fact that Agile exists doesn't bother me, it's the amount of 
> > uptake it has had in the industry -- a sure sign the 
> software industry 
> > as a whole hasn't really grown up yet and started to do 
> real engineering.
> 
> There are a few interesting ideas in the concept, and some of 
> them can be used in other contexts, also. 
> 
> But there's one core concept that IME is one of the reasons 
> for failure of the deal: frequent (and if needed deep) 
> refactoring. Most programmers are scared to death to refactor 
> code they haven't written -- but yet, that's one of the core 
> necessities of Agile. Since there's not much architecture 
> laid out at the beginning, programmers have to correct the 
> course quite often -- which means quick and "agile" 
> refactoring, often deep through the whole system. 


Fix it until it breaks, and then fix it again.

Tony

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