<ul><li>Agile has held a position as somewhat of a professional religion of software engineering.</li><li>Recent research has found that Agile software projects had a 268% higher failure rate.</li><li>Google’s DORA team is turning their backs on Agile and DevOps.</li><li>Synodus is reporting that by moving away from Agile, they are delivering projects 2-3x faster.</li><li>Impact Engineering is being favored over traditional Agile and DevOps metrics.</li><li>Loss aversion awareness can play a big role in mitigating project success.</li><li>The paper concludes that merely having clear requirements, even when they change late in development, seems to have a significant role in software project success.</li><li>Existing software engineering methodologies fail to address that humans are not machines and psychological factors impede the ability to address problems.</li><li>Having identified the issue, the paper presents how to use requirements before the start of a project to provide the opportunity to address problems when loss aversion is at its lowest.</li><li>Software projects become disasters when humans fail to address smaller scale technical problems.</li></ul>

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