Quote Originally Posted by dilettante View Post
All of these of course are meant to guarantee the greatest success for ill-conceived projects with poorly defined requirements and low skilled and/or transient interchangable-cog labor. Since this is ridiculous the cost and rate of failure is fairly high.

Decision makers are addicted to this. They don't understand why software development should cost any more than their illegal immigrant gardeners, nannies, housekeepers, roofers, etc. There is no shortage of undereducated, unskilled, unexperienced, low-ball self professed "developers" out there to keep these false dreams alive.
So, what you mean is one of these, right?
  • Aglie is the perfect methodology for VBA-to-VB6 projects, which are usually headed by someone who starts every thread with, "I'm not a programmer..." and is only just starting to realize they've fallen into a deep hole.
  • Sweeping generalizations are a fallacy and should use enough hyperbole to make the sarcasm clear.