Speaking of strawmen, where did I cite waterfall? The entire foundation of your post is a fiction.
Software is tough. It is always, and has always been tough. The same flexibility that is the great benefit of the domain is also its curse. This is true across any methodology, so try not to project your own hangups into that statement.
Agile is something that some shops try to do, imperfectly, against that reality. Every one of these angry anti-agile comments seem to opine that agile is terrible versus some mythical alternative that is shapeless and amorphous, boiled down to "have a great team". That is, quite simply, nonsense. It is the pat solution of the bottom feeder.
Religious views? Again, the entire foundation of the anti-agile screed, which is generally by people with a chip on their shoulder (and they probably had a chip on their shoulder about everything that people with more influence over them got adopted) is that it is deficient compared with an unspoken, unstated alternative.
And I'm the one bringing religion in this? Christ.
I may have responded to the wrong person (or you've edited your post) as the post I meant to respond to was most definitely comparing waterfall to agile.
It's very common for agile proponents to push Waterfall as the necessary alternative to agile, but that's a logical fallacy.
Software is tough. It is always, and has always been tough. The same flexibility that is the great benefit of the domain is also its curse. This is true across any methodology, so try not to project your own hangups into that statement.
Agile is something that some shops try to do, imperfectly, against that reality. Every one of these angry anti-agile comments seem to opine that agile is terrible versus some mythical alternative that is shapeless and amorphous, boiled down to "have a great team". That is, quite simply, nonsense. It is the pat solution of the bottom feeder.
Religious views? Again, the entire foundation of the anti-agile screed, which is generally by people with a chip on their shoulder (and they probably had a chip on their shoulder about everything that people with more influence over them got adopted) is that it is deficient compared with an unspoken, unstated alternative.
And I'm the one bringing religion in this? Christ.