• Prox@lemmy.world
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      5 months ago

      What a shit measure. A key idea is to fail fast and fail often, as this leads to faster growth through more frequent (re)assessment.

      SW companies only care about profit. If failure rate is 268% higher but profit is simultaneously 10% higher, then Agile is the better choice.

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      What is impact engineering though? If it’s it’s just agile while being cognisant of technical debt over MVPs, I don’t know if it’s necessarily that different.

      It seems the study was designed to sell a book and I can’t find anything about what that book says. I should probably read it but the bait way it’s being sold makes me resistant to paying to find out.

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      The goddamn article you yourself posted as the proof mentions how it’s an ad right at the top

      Even though the research commissioned by consultancy Engprax could be seen as a thinly veiled plug for Impact Engineering methodology, it feeds into the suspicion that the Agile Manifesto might not be all it’s cracked up to be