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michaelochurch on Dec 2, 2014 | parent | context | favorite | on: The Case for Slow Programming

The term "agile" deserves a preceding apostrophe, as in 'agile, because there are two letters (the 'f' and the 'r') being trimmed.

I fucking hate that nonsense. It's a total scam.

einhverfr on Dec 2, 2014 | [–]

Obligatory cite to SQL On Rails http://sqlonrails.org/

spacemanmatt on Dec 2, 2014 | [–]

I hate that the term has seen total dilution. I have been on outstanding teams that called their methodology agile, but it was an adjective at the time. In that era.

Not the fault of the word, though. I'll keep using it.

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