Agile Foundations
Where agile came from, what the Manifesto actually says, and the difference between the empirical ideas that hold up and the folklore that accreted around them.
Argue from first principles instead of quoting a framework.
Foundational
2Agile Vs Waterfall, The Honest Comparison
An even-handed account of where sequential delivery genuinely outperforms iterative delivery, where it does not, why Royce is routinely misquoted, and how to choose per workstream rather than per organisation.
9 min readwaterfallstage gateThe Agile Manifesto, Read Properly
The Manifesto is sixty-eight words plus twelve principles, and almost nobody who cites it has read it recently. What it actually says, what it was arguing against, and which parts have aged.
9 min readmanifestoprinciples
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