Grab your sword or staff or ranged weapon, and let’s have some fun. Today we’re going to battle fantasy with facts.
If you are completely unfamiliar with Agile (or need a gentle refresher), you can get the basics here. Agile project management is an iterative approach to managing and delivering a project throughout its life cycle. Unfortunately a lot of what people think they know about Agile is fantasy, not reality. Alas, they were wrong about that, too.Īnd they truly believed they were adhering to Agile principles in the management of their projects. They were convinced Agile was the solution to all the woes of their kingdom, or company, as it were. In fact, this notion of the medieval knight is nothing but a modern myth that must be finally killed off.…there were business leaders all over the world who thought they understood Agile. Popular culture has embraced this vision by consistently depicting the medieval armoured warrior as an overburdened, lumbering figure in heavy plate armour, who relied on brute strength to overwhelm his adversaries. This picture of untutored knights clumsily swinging crude swords while stomping around half-blind like beached crabs is terribly inaccurate. Claims that, once unhorsed, a knight was a ‘clanking tank’at his foe’s mercy have unfortunately become common among academics, to the point that it has become something of an unquestioned mantra.
This was a leitmotif in much nineteenth and twentieth century writing on fencing history and descriptions of personal combat from the Middle Ages. Despite the continued importance of the armoured warrior in medieval military history, common opinion – even among historians – is that, at the apogee of his development in the ‘Age of Plate’, he was an awkward lobster out of water.
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