Peter Onion wrote:
> On Tue, 2008-10-21 at 12:22 -0700, Vitaliy wrote:
>> Peter Onion wrote:
>> >> One of my professors described what happened in the days before Agile:
>> >
>> > Ah, in the dark ages when every large software project failed!  ;-)
>>
>> I didn't say that, now -- did I, Peter? :)
>
> No indeed you didn't.  But to listen to some of the "Agile Evangelists"
> it's hard to see how anything ever got produced before the latest, best
> ever, must have, "development bling" was used :-)
>
> None of the projects I've ever worked on has used a single
> "methodology", we pick and mix the bits we need when we need them.

Agile project teams do have a higher rate of success, according to DDJ. And 
I think that there really is no such thing as a true "waterfall-based 
development approach". Change happens.

Vitaliy 

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