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Chapter 6
The Advent of Agile
The old order changeth, yielding place to new
— Alfred Lord Tennyson
The Idylls of the King. The Passing of Arthur
We shall not cease from exploration
And the end of all our exploring
Will be to arrive where we started
And know the place for the first time.
— Thomas Stearns Eliot
“Little Gidding,” pt. 5, Four Quartets
Plus ça change, plus c’est la même chose.
— Alphonse Karr
Les Guêpes, January 1849
It Has always Been Agile
It has always been Agile. Even back in the mythic days of Waterfall Mod-
els and go-to-less programming, when the world was procedural and struc-
tured, when it worked, it was also Agile. At least somewhat. ...