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by kolinko 2418 days ago
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.

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