Comment Re:Is Agile Development a Failing Concept? (Score 1) 507
The biggest failing of Agile seems to be the interpretation that no one has to care about the big picture. Planning and preparation are too narrowly scoped to specific functionality. Even in that there's a tendency to be lazy. Implementation often degenerates into hack and paste.
There's nothing horribly wrong with Agile development in theory. The chosen Agile method (yes I'm looking at you Extreme Programming), and especially the tendency to laziness sabotage development efforts.