[winternett]

Most of these methodologies came from the car making industry... I think if we realize that and compare making cars to the process of managing software, it's easy to adjust and manage aspects of efficiency & output.... The problem is that humans (the actual devs and process managers) are not often accounted for in the process now, as robots have taken over most of the aspects of car making, so while Agile may look ideal in many cases, the output if often not predictable when staff can quit, rebel and burn the factory down, join unions and demand more pay, or take vacations (for example).

[aiaiaiaiaiai]

Making software cannot be repetitive and is always novel. Commands like cp, scp, cat, git clone... made the repetition part redundant eons ago. The first magnetic tape did.

Cloning data is so low cost. Cloning a car is high cost.

It makes sense to tame the complexity and think waterfall vs. this or that but we aint building cars or houses.