The Fallacies of Agile

The Agile approach is great when applied appropriately, but the concept is nothing new. In fact it goes so far back it shares its roots with the waterfall method. But Agile got a cool name in 2001 (before that it was just working closely with the customer in an iterative fashion, which wasn’t anywhere near as catchy) and was jumped upon by consultants and cowboy coders. This article looks at just some of the common fallacies that have grown up around this peculiar buzzword.