alt Hacker NewsI'm curious whether it's the author's contention that the signatories of the Agile Manifesto thought that the ideas they were championing went back only a few years, and they had no idea they went back at least 30. In particular
> All of these things were later claimed as Agile innovations
Are there some references that demonstrate that? [EDIT: that the signatories thought they were their own innovations]
And if so, is that a bad thing? Ideas are repeatedly rediscovered. This article isn't called "Saying goodbye to Royce, Bell and Thayer", and I'm wondering why not.
Yes, there is an entire narrative that first there was chaos, then there was waterfall, and then there was agile.
For example, https://www.infoworld.com/article/2334751/a-brief-history-of...
It's as if people believed that all the microcomputing software of the 1970s and 1980s, from VisiCalc to Zork to the Macintosh, was done by waterfall design.