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by bazoom42 33 days ago
Are you referring to some particular projects, or to the early stages of every project?
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The original Agile poster child, Chrysler Comprehensive Compensation System (C3) was never very successful as a project. It achieved only a fraction of its goals and was ultimately cancelled.

YAGNI in that context is hilarious, because they were replacing an existing COBOL based payroll system. They literally needed pretty much everything the old system did to be successful. Part of the failure is because the devs did not understand what they were replacing.

Ah, that sounds like a classic mistake - rewriting a system from scratch without fully understanding what the system actually does.