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Fred Brooks pointed out that with a small team of competent programmers, any organizational methodology will work.

If you pay attention, the best Agile systems focus on improving the skills of developers instead of forcing people to follow the 'steps' or a formula.

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People over process every time. It's really hard to build a team of good people though so instead companies try to tweak their process. Process can matter e.g. a good team can be wrecked by a bad process but a bad team is bad no matter the process.

Depends on what you define by “bad” team. I'm in the Philippines, and there's lots of BPO companies here (call centers, dev shops, …). They have to deal with a high rate of ppl leaving, and train their employees from scratch. Still, those companies are successful and ppl want those relatively well paid jobs, even if they'll jump ship for any reason at all. In this kind of environment, process is everything.

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