[lostcolony]

Why is this on the front page?

This is an individual's ranting as he generalizes his own agile experiences to everyone's, -even while he recognizes that the generalizations people make about waterfall are straw men-. What an amazing lack of self-awareness.

Worse still, even if I granted him his points as broadly as he seems to want to make them, and agreed that all agile/scrum experiences are like this (or at least, those in consulting), he fails to give any suggestion as to how to improve things. He dismisses both agile and waterfall. Okay then; how would you do things differently? 'It’s time for most of “Agile” and especially Scrum to die' - fine, to be replaced with -what-? I'm not interested in generalizations that you whine over; whether or not you're correct becomes immaterial if you -legitimately offer me something better-. But this offers me nothing.

[stephengillie]

> Why is this on the front page?

I've gone around and around with others, and apparently articles like this must be interesting to most of HN's readership. It's got more than a dozen points.

The Guidelines say to flag it and move on, but maybe we can get a nice meta conversation going this time.

[lostcolony]

Yeah, that comment was less about "this should not have been submitted" and more "exactly why are people upvoting this?"

But maybe it'll lead to a productive discussion on what it takes to run an effective agile shop, and that'd be worthwhile.

[hartator]

Weirdly it's not on the home anymore - despite having more than 32 points in less than 1 hour.

[dang]

For the usual reason: users flagged it. Also, it's a duplicate.