This is the revised translation of my article published in "ITWeek" magazine January 24, 2019, text on the site

An expert tries to know more and more about less and less until he knows absolutely everything about nothing. And a philosopher tries to know less and less about more and …

Bertrand Meyer's article "Making sense of agile methods" (PDF, November 2017 on author site, copy on this site)

Russian translation published in "Open systems" magazine N°2-2018 "Об Agile по гамбургскому счету"

Some citations (I completely agree according to my experience).

Everything will look fine until you suddenly discover that …

The text below is not mine but I completely agree with author, after many years in software engineering using models to generate programs, components and codes. See also Geniel Lamp tool and my presentation "[MDA/MDD approach - Relation to the software development life-cycle](https://www.researchgate.net/publication/287201275_Architecture_of_enterprise_automated_information_system_-Layers_and_levels_-MDA_MDD_approach_-Relation_to_the_software_development_life-cycle".

The …