A critical retrospective on the Agile movement in software development, arguing that Agile was poorly defined and vague despite decades of adoption. The article traces how many claimed Agile innovations—prototyping, customer involvement, iterative design—were actually documented in Winston Royce's 1970 paper, years before Agile was formalized in 2001.
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Saying Goodbye to Agile
Agile's celebrated practices—prototyping, customer involvement, iterative design—were all documented by Winston Royce in 1970, nearly three decades before the Agile Manifesto (2001), revealing the movement repackaged established principles as innovation.
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