are programmers "failures"?

[Thomas Okken]

And what, once you have come to grips with Agile -- which never happens, by the way, witness the fact that every Agile apologist ever is always going on about how people don't understand it and are doing it wrong -- what exactly will you have achieved?

It made me laugh, and yet it is utterly typical, that even the Wikipedia page on Agile only credits it with making teams, well, more Agile. It's so boneheaded, you can't make this stuff up.

People have written software for decades before Agile. Every operating system in existence, every major piece of shrink-wrapped software, global information systems in business, finance, and science, all put together by people who had no name for what they were doing other than "coding" and "project management," and who, for the most part, knew to focus on results, and refrain from micro-managing each other.

Oh, how long ago it all seems. /rant off