Working Up

by Dwayne Phillips

The Federal government is using agile development (or so they claim). Agile will be dead and gone in ten years.

Agile development is hot. Everyone is using it. The Federal (state and local) government is using it now. At least government agencies say they are using it, but anyone who can tell the difference between agile and a hole in the ground knows they aren’t using it.

It doesn’t matter that reality doesn’t agree with propaganda. When they government says they are using something, they are using something. They will run it into the ground until everyone in the world hates it. They will kill it.

The government will turn the practices into something awful, painful, and the clincher—something that does not work.

Perhaps someone out there will find a new name agile development, write a new manifesto, and the practice thrive for 20 years before the government kills it too.