A parable explaining away all the Agile projects that failed. What I find interesting about this is that it can just as easily be applied to all the Bondage and Discipline--pardon me, Big Design Up Front--projects that failed.
Perhaps--and this is pure conjecture--the biggest problem the industry has is that people rarely take a process or methodology and apply it as written, but insist on customizing it for their convenience and according to their conjecture even when they have very little experience with it in practice.
Perhaps--and this is pure conjecture--the biggest problem the industry has is that people rarely take a process or methodology and apply it as written, but insist on customizing it for their convenience and according to their conjecture even when they have very little experience with it in practice.