"He advocates instead a “move fast and break things” model, where software is deployed and errors fixed as they are discovered."
Great, except that'd get people killed. So, er, no.
Erik's being a bit silly here. He's not railing against Agile, but the horrible waterfall-agile Wagile hybrid that is all-too-common in large enterprises trying to "act like a startup". Which is fair enough, but Agile done right is just such a pleasure to work in. It gives the lightest of frameworks to the things we all know work well - small, incremental targets; small, self-organising teams, direct and frequent user involvement. None of these are Bad Things.
Having watched the talk Erik strikes me as just too much of a pure programmer - he considers any minute not spent hands-to-keyboards churning out [potentially broken] code; including any time spent by non-programmers, as a wasted one. That's bonkers.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
