Agile (how not to)
In which a spleen is vented.
The following tirade is the result of years working in badly-implemented Agile environments, and the sneaking suspicion that there is no other kind. ChildSkeletonFactory In software, we like to be agile. Not literally, not in any way that involves physical movement beyond the coffee machine, but metaphorically. We like metaphors, preferably more than one at a time, and so code is full of picturesque objects like factories, dictionaries, trees, bootstraps, threads, skeletons, children, containers, watchdogs and so on.