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Your Dad's DevOps is Dead

Agile.  Test Driven Development.  DevOps.  All of these terms represent phases that the application development community, as a whole, have gone through for various reasons.  Whatever the reason, however, they all miss the mark.  Yes, I just said that. Several years ago, I conducted a webinar entitled Agile is Dead .  The title wasn't only incendiary to those who attended; I even heard from the agile project management solution's product team who decried my title as an attempt to force them into irrelevancy. "Never mind that," I told them.  "Listen to what the content is all about."  What was the content then, and why am I bringing it up now? Back then, I argued that Test Driven Development was a fallacy because the one thing that was immutable was the release date.  Forcing developers to spend time developing test cases to be solved and that leaves developers less time to write the code that satisfies the test cases that they developed.  It was a re