Agile is Dead (So is COBOL, XP, RAD, UML, SAFe, etc)

Why are people so excited to announce the death of software development paradigms?

8 min readAug 13, 2021

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“Agile is Dead” is a great clickbait headline. To commemorate the 20th anniversary of the publication of the Manifesto for Agile Software Development, all sorts of pundits came out of the woodwork to announce that Agile was dead. Agile is…

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John has over 25 years of experience in leading product management and corporate development organizations for enterprise firms.

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