[raganwald]

Question: If you take your own comment and replace the word "Agile" with "BDUF," does it still ring true? Why? Why not??

p.s. To be clear, I know many ineffective consultants who sell a variety of snake oils, both Agile and BDUF. I'm wary of falling into the "No True Scotsman" fallacy of claiming that what they sell isn't Agile or isn't BDUF. Really, I have no evidence that there is any methodology that turns a bad consultant into a genius, or allows a great consultant to turn a bad development team into software shipping superstars. I don't claim that anything works. But then again, I don't claim that anything "doesn't work," either.