If you’re turning your back on unit testing and other agile development techniques, maybe it’s because you’re doing it wrong? So says Chris Spagnuolo, anyway, with a handy list of reasons why your agile adoption may not be going as planned. His bugaboo is top-down imposition of agile methodologies, which is all well and good (who among us does not resent The Man telling us what to do?) but doesn’t help those who are at the top and want to impose these nifty techniques on their minions. Organic initiatives sound good but are hard to cultivate in practice. Jean Tabaka comes up with another list of reasons agile techniques founder — which seem logical as far as they go, though at a certain level of abstraction, these sort of sound like reasons why any programming enterprise (or any group endeavor, for that matter) is flopping. Software Development