I'm in university at the moment and we're learning about Agile. Next year I've managed to get a year long placement with a big local software company and their interview and technical assessment mentioned Agile loads. The year after that, I have half a module (worth 8% of that year's available marks) based solely on Agile. I've also attended talks by big names like Citigroup and also local startups which were almost entirely about using Agile.
So is it in fact the case that in The Real World Agile is starting to go out of favour?
> So is it in fact the case that in The Real World Agile is starting to go out of favour?
Nope, it has finally crossed the line into being "main stream". On the technology adoption lifecycle* it has hit the late majority.
It has been taken up by the "software development as career"-types who're only in it for the money; it's now a "requirement", just another box to be ticked.
Sad, but on the plus side it's better than the "waterfall" processes which preceded it.
No - companies invest a lot of resources into their software development processes, and changing processes often involves a significant investment of it's own, not to mention a slow down in productivity.
So is it in fact the case that in The Real World Agile is starting to go out of favour?