[mlthoughts2018]

Yeah but did they use Agile methods and have good team velocity as they burned down the backlog? If not, how can we really be sure the project was a success?

[kolinko]

Agile shares a lot in common with practices mentioned in „Mythical man-month”, which in turn was based on the good practices from the Voyager era.

Also, extreme programming was based in part on the TDD from Mercury program, iirc.

Having said that - yes, cargo cult agile sucks, we all know that.

[mlthoughts2018]

The surgical team analogy at the core of TMMM is totally incongruent with agile principles. The book espouses a ton of anti-agile (small a) ideas.

[mixmastamyk]

Maybe, I know he highly recommended iterative development in the silver bullet essay: http://eppsnet.com/2006/06/respect-the-classics-man-no-silve...

[james_s_tayler]

They had escape velocity.

[mrbonner]

I like your comment but it got down voted into oblivion probably because you forgot the /s tag. Some folks are serious here.

[saagarjha]

Hacker News isn't very accommodating of trite humor in my experience, so I doubt /s would have helped much here.

[JohnJamesRambo]

Check their Slack and ask.