Chapter 15: Agile Myths

 

· Agile is anti-documentation

· Agile is anti-planning

· Agile is undisciplined

· Agile requires a lot of rework

· Agile is anti-architecture

· Agile doesn't scale

· Agile solves everything

· Agile is only for IT projects

So given Agile is a mystery for a lot of people because they don't know what it is or don't understand it, well there are a lot of myths or misconceptions around Agile. And I would like to clarify about all of them so that you don't believe any of them. 

Let's start with a very common misconception about Agile: Agile is anti-documentation and agile says we shouldn't document anything. Documenting is worthless. Completely untrue, false and a huge misconception around agile. Agile has never said we shouldn't document, on the contrary with agile you are documenting all the time. 

Think about user stories...