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A made up conversation[*]

Team: “ Coach! Coach! This agile process stuff you sold us doesn’t work! ” Coach: “ Did you build working software regularly? ” Team: “ No, it was too difficult. ” Coach: “ Did you extend your definition of Done as far as you could? ” Team: “ No, it was too difficult. ” Coach: “ Did you make quality part of your process? ” Team: “ No, it was too difficult. ” Coach: “ Did you review what you were doing at all? ” Team: “ Yes, but we didn’t like what we discovered, so we ignored it. ” Coach: “ So are you absolutely sure it was the agile process that caused you to fail? ” Team: “ Oh yes, absolutely…. ” Coach: " <sigh> " * honest....