Francisco Gutiérrez
2 min readFeb 21, 2020

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Thank you Piet to take the time to comment my article.

I was thinking the kind of comments I will have will be more like the type “You know nothing about agile, read more until you are convince is awesome” I am happy to see I was wrong.

I think you are saving the message and blaming the church.

The bible/agile also has good principles that I would say are of two types:

- obvious: You shall not kill / highest priority is to satisfy the customer. Any society that kills their members will disappear by itself, any company not taking care of their customers will have the same fate.

- Counter nature/ impossible to fulfil : “Love your enemies, do good to those who hate you” / “Welcome changing requirements, even late in
development”. It doesn’t mean it is not a good will, to love everybody or to welcome requirements changes, in my opinión, a human been will fail at theses task over and over, and this will frustrate the religion follower. Try to make a dev to welcome a change of requirements that throw away the work of last month. He could fake it, but I really doubt he is welcoming it.

As an engineer I like empiric stuff, good will is useless if the system fails again and again. What are the empiric basis of this principles, this methodology, even in the wikipedia says there is no evidence on this to work.

I am going to create an alternative system (that will suck for sure) but only for the sake of not been cheap on my criticism (it is easy to critic without not giving an alternative) I will try to be based in empiric evidence.

I hope you can read it, and criticise me in a creative way.

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Francisco Gutiérrez
Francisco Gutiérrez

Written by Francisco Gutiérrez

An web artisan too old for the hype. 📜 "I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand."

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