Comments by "Immudzen" (@Immudzen) on ""Agile Practices are 268% More Likely To Fail"... WHAT A LOAD OF..." video.

Thanks for this video. I had looked at this "study" and we had just decided it didn't apply to us. All of my work is scientific software and we don't understand the problem until we start working on it. Sometimes we don't even know exactly what problem we need to solve before we seriously sit down and start working on it. Agile works quite well for us but this idea of knowing everything in advance and having some kind of a timetable is just utterly unrealistic.
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@JanVerny I do have oversight and people do expect results but they also know the problems are incredibly hard and want to be kept updated. Imagine you are asked with increasing the yield of something. Before you can figure out what to do you have to first figure out what is impacting the yield now, what models do you already have available, what things can you change to try and increase it. Once you know that then you can set about actually solving a problem.
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@JanVerny It is nowhere near the level of waterfall but it is not like you can just jump in and start coding when you don't even know what kind of problem you need to solve. Once you have a general idea you typically have to read papers to figure out what kinds of solutions even exist and we can discuss what would even work for us. If one of the methods requires equipment we don't have then other methods need to be looked at first. I don't see a way to just start coding without these ideas figured out at least a little bit first.
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