program selection system

This is a “talk with exercises”, “questioning agile” in terms of the constituencies involved in developing significant systems, their diverse concerns, and the reactions & aspirations that follow from having their concerns met, or not. Framing “Agile” or methods and tools in general this way, what can we learn? Questions like:

• If “waterfall” is bad, yet “waterfall” persists, why is that? Do we really have that many masochists in the world, or does it maybe appeal to a need?
• What the heck is the attraction of a PERT Chart? Of having a CCB?