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Andy Hunt
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Andy Hunt writes toolshed.com, a personal blog at blog.toolshed.com about programming and career. Since 2010, 9 different Hacker News readers have linked it 9 times, most often “The Failure of Agile”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-04-27, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
The linked posts recount Andy Hunt's years at ThoughtWorks and the lessons he drew from them. The one comment uses agile and waterfall project management history in the thread and does not judge the writing.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 1 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Most-linked posts?
- The Failure of Agile3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2015-05-07
What Hacker News says?
Atleast two signatories if Agile Manifest has stated that the movement has lost its way [1][2]. I think it never had a chance. With the old waterfall model, projcet managers had some power : they could continuosly interrupt engineers and ask them to do more and more since project went in one trajectory for years. They were justified since the engineers had plenty of 'downtime'. Engineers had some power, the project…
Comment linking /2015/05/the-failure-of-agile.html
on “Years and lessons working at ThoughtWorks”Submitted The Failure of Agile as a story · 335 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Failure of Agile as a story · 16 points
HN discussionSubmitted Andy Hunt - How Good a Job Can You Do? as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted New Agile Method announced: SCRAP as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted IContact email addresses compromised as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted /\ndy: No Place for Bugs to Hide as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted How to Avoid Agility as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Lettuce Principle as a story · 1 points
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