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You don't need Scrum, you just need to do Kanban right (2022)
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The age of cargo cult Agile must end
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Why backlogs are useless, why they never shrink, and what to do instead
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Scrum has failed the developers
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Why don’t software development methodologies work? (2014)
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The SAFe Delusion
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How to distort Scrum until it no longer works
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I don’t believe in sprints
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Less is more agile
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DevOps: An idea so good, no one admits they don’t do it
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Agile and the long crisis of software
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Leave Scrum to rugby, I like getting stuff done (2020)
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Has Agile Become Addiction to Instant Gratification?
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Agile at 20: The Failed Rebellion
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Cargo Cult Software Engineering (2000)
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Plan the Sprint, Not the Project
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DIB Guide: Detecting Agile BS (2018) [pdf]
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Does scrum ruin great engineers or are you doing it wrong?
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Agile's early evangelists wouldn't mind watching Agile die
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Why some software developers hate Agile
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DevOps didn’t exist when I started as a developer
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The DevOps Phenomenon: An executive crash course
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Scrum is fragile, not Agile
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Agile Lite: Agile without all the burnout
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DIB Guide: Detecting Agile BS (2018) [pdf]
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Agile won the war but lost the peace
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The State of Agile Software in 2018
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Scrum disempowers developers
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Developing SaaS? Forget Scrum, Check Out Kanban and Similar Approaches
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Commitment vs. Forecast: A Subtle But Important Change to Scrum (2011)
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Why don’t software development methodologies work? (2014)
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My 20-Year Experience of Software Development Methodologies
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My 20-Year Experience of Software Development Methodologies
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Why Isn’t Agile Working?
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Split user stories ruthlessly and get value earlier
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Cargo cult data science
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DevOps is a culture, not a role
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Hype Driven Development
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Scrum is the new waterfall
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The Failure of Agile
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Modern Extreme Programming
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Manifesto for Async Software Development
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Coconut Headphones: Why Agile Has Failed
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Agile Is Dead (Long Live Agility)
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Manifesto for Half-Arsed Agile Software Development
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Extreme Programming, a Reflection
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What is Programmer Anarchy and does it have a future?
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Asshole Driven Development
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Why I'm done with Scrum
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Agile: 5 years later and you're still doing it wrong
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Warning Signs that Agile Is Declining
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Why Software Projects Are Terrible And How Not To Fix Them
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Agile Scrum: Delivering Broken Software Since 1991
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A Summary of "Joel on Software"
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Asshole driven development
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Scrum Sucks
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Headline Driven Development
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Study finds 268% higher failure rates for Agile software projects
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The Software Crisis
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U.S. Department of Defense – Detecting Agile BS [pdf] (2018)
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