Agile Is Dead. Long Live Continuous Delivery.
The Agile Manifesto celebrated its 23rd birthday in 2024. In that time, “Agile” has gone from a radical set of software development principles to a $10B consulting industry that has produced exactly the opposite of what it promised.
What Actually Works
Continuous delivery — the practice of deploying code to production as frequently as multiple times per day — is the single most reliable predictor of software delivery performance. It requires trunk-based development, comprehensive automated testing, feature flags, and a culture of small, incremental change.
