I'm guessing you were modded down for implied snark, but it's well worth asking how a small project becomes a big project with no noticing, or noticing but not taking appropriate action.
It happens to the best of us, the feature creep, the must-haves, the rush to ship. So, does agile actually fail to address this, or is this something subtle that manages to evade detection despite better practices and intents?
but it's well worth asking how a small project becomes a big project with no noticing, or noticing but not taking appropriate action.
Simple, nobody pays you to notice how much of a problem the software that works perfectly has become. They pay you to improve feature x by a very small amount, or to add feature y.
So, sure Agile works fine, in the same world that most every other methodology works fine.
It's not the methodology that makes good software, it's the people behind it.
It happens to the best of us, the feature creep, the must-haves, the rush to ship. So, does agile actually fail to address this, or is this something subtle that manages to evade detection despite better practices and intents?