You Didn't Know Me

Michael Daconta used to work for DHS. He discusses 6 hot technology trends, pouring some cooling water upon them ("fads"). However, I have to challenge this one:

3. Agile development is a programmer’s fantasy and a manager’s nightmare. In my more than 20 years of software development experience, I have never met a government program manager who is available on a daily or even weekly basis to help design an application on the fly....

Mr. Daconta, you never met me. Of course the problem is I was a frustrated programmer at heart, so the time I was spending giving input on the program was mostly time I should have been spending elsewhere, like developing my employees.