Just finished reading Jean Tabaka's article on 11 ways agile adoption fails on stickyminds.com. I could state that I'm an agile enthusiast - but I won't because I'm beginning to think differently. The same issues/problems described would cause any project under any methodology to fail, for example: Denial is Embraced Instead of the Brutal Truth.......mmmm - sounds like the Space Shuttle. It all comes back to people (not resources - people) - give the right person any tool and the job gets done - give the wrong person the top/best tool out there and you still end up with problems. Methodologies are important - compared to other methodologies, but the focus needs to be on the people.
Alistair Cockburn reaches the same conclusion in [url]http://alistair.cockburn.us/Characterizing+people+as+non-linear,+first-order+components+in+software+development[/url]
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