Today, Joel Spolsky pointed to an essay by Steve Yegge talking about Good vs. Bad Agile.  Apparently, Steve had previously poo-poo’ed Agile development.  This was his opportunity to say that he was only 90% right (sigh).  The only thing his essay convinced me of was that he didn’t know what he was talking about.  Apparently, his idea of “Good Agile” is to schedule meetings in the middle of the day and let people work on whatever they want to.

I’m getting really tired of the software “religious wars”. You know what I mean:  where people get up on their soapbox and shoot off their metaphoric mouths about stuff that they don’t understand.  In fact, their main criticism seems to be that whatever they’re against is wrong because they don’t understand it.

By the way, if I didn’t make myself clear, Steve’s essay falls into this category. 

9/29/2006 12:27:12 PM (Pacific Daylight Time, UTC-07:00)      Comments [0]  development