Comments by "Mikko Rantalainen" (@MikkoRantalainen) on "268% Higher Failure Rates For Agile" video.

  1. 4:30 I think the more interesting question would have been "for the projects that had clear requirements documented before the development started, how many actually matched the final end user needs?" – I would guess many waterfall projects did actually implement things as designed but I don't believe majority of those projects actually matched the user needs.
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  2. I've been writing software for living for 20+ years and I feel that hardest part is to get decision makers to clearly defined what's "good enough" for release. It seems to change randomly at least weekly.
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  3. 15:20 If you want organic collaboration between these parts...
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  4. 14:15 I think the most important thing to understand that every team must invent their own methodology if they want to be effective. You cannot just copy some magical "one-size-fits-all" method that would actually work for real. Some say that developers are like werewolves: always afraid of magic bullets.
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