[carsongross]

Agile development is another tick in the long series of desperate attempts by management to avoid The One Thing That Actually Usually Works™: Hire great developers, pay them a ton of money and give them a lot of freedom and time.

[tsotha]

I don't see how this makes sense. If I hired a bunch of great developers at great cost I would have even more incentive to maximize their output than I would if I hired a bunch of mediocre people at a lower cost.