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prpllast Thursday at 3:13 AM2 repliesview on HN

Agile itself is predicated on software being difficult to ship/expensive. It might not make sense to continue (waterfall might be better actually)

The real problem is that company decisions will never be made as fast as software can be written (and rewritten) now.


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dragonwriterlast Thursday at 3:36 AM

> Agile itself is predicated on software being difficult to ship/expensive.

No, the opposite; it is predicated on software being cheap and easy to ship, but hard to correctly anticipate the needs for.

> It might not make sense to continue (waterfall might be better actually)

Waterfall, not agile, is predicated on software being difficult to ship/expensive.

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obliolast Thursday at 4:19 AM

> Agile itself is predicated on software being difficult to ship/expensive.

Software is still "difficult to ship/expensive". Code is very cheap now. Any kind of non-slop software is still expensive.