I found an interesting video on YouTube about the benefits of agile methods versus the waterfall method. The video is clearly one sided but I thought it was funny because it doesn’t really explain what agile development is at all. It lists all the reason why this team that uses agile development works better than the other team. They list reasons such as the team who use the waterfall method have a boss who likes to golf and team members who don’t value each others’ time. They constantly emphasize the fact that the waterfall effort takes a LONG time to do and how the client isn’t happy with the results and their work ends up in filing cabinets in the basement. But they then go on to say that with agile development team members work better together, aren’t stressed, and don’t work on the software after they have finished it. I found it funny because a lot of people argue the exact opposite and say that with agile development there is little research done before and that means that after development, creators must go back and improve on it after users request modifications. I just think the video would have been more effective if the creator had actually told viewers what the two methods are and used more realistic reasons for backing agile development.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gDDO3ob-4ZY
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