# Less is more agile | Tales about Software Engineering - Host: [beny23.github.io](https://links.thingelstad.xyz/hosts/beny23.github.io/) - Saved: September 15, 2022 (2022-09-16T01:25:02Z) - Record: https://links.thingelstad.xyz/links/a2c2db8eb6fd/ - JSON: https://links.thingelstad.xyz/links/a2c2db8eb6fd.json ## What Jamie wrote There is this view, I'll call it Agile Purist, that I find frustrating in software. There are more than a handful of folks, including some very smart people that I highly respect, who seem to believe the only thing we need to know to build great software is the [Agile Manifesto](https://agilemanifesto.org). Frankly, I've never seen that be enough to organize anything more than a trivial size team creating a small number of things. It is a frustrating argument to get into too, since inevitably the purist will refute all your arguments to the contrary with "Your doing it wrong". The Agile Manifesto was a good solution for the time but it misses a lot of dimensions. There were no marketing, sales, or customer teams writing that manifesto. There were also no operations people making sure stuff works 24 hours a day. There also weren't any women authoring the manifesto. ## Facts - Kind: [Page](https://links.thingelstad.xyz/kinds/page/) ## Appears in - [WT226: Weekly Thing #226 / Patagonia, Merge, Walrus](https://weekly.thingelstad.com/archive/226/), Notable ## Saved the same week - [Playdate Community Bundle - itch.io](https://links.thingelstad.xyz/links/00f26204d339/) (itch.io, September 15, 2022) - [The Sender Policy Framework (SPF)](https://links.thingelstad.xyz/links/9a88588db294/) (netmeister.org, September 15, 2022) - [Running More Low-Severity Incidents Is Improving Our Culture](https://links.thingelstad.xyz/links/d5ed3ec1915e/) (thenewstack.io, September 15, 2022) - [After self-hosting my email for twenty-three years I have thrown in the towel. The oligopoly has won.](https://links.thingelstad.xyz/links/e621a09edd33/) (cfenollosa.com, September 15, 2022) - [Interview: Vitalik Buterin, creator of Ethereum](https://links.thingelstad.xyz/links/c9c40649a913/) (noahpinion.substack.com, September 15, 2022) ## Elsewhere - Wayback Machine: https://web.archive.org/web/*/https://beny23.github.io/posts/my_take_on_engineering_room_9/