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by Scubabear68 2 hours ago
This was the issue with the early agile-developed systems.

Not that they didn’t write no code, obviously, but they didn’t understand the domain and so YAGNI’d everyone to death. As a result there wasn’t enough code for the system would do what it needed to do.

The code was simple and highly testable, but didn’t actually do the job.