The Anti-Agile Manifesto
Why Specification Driven Development WinsBy Mark A. Smith
Length3h 14m
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The Anti-Agile Manifesto: Why Specification-Driven Development Wins
Six months after surviving the Velocity Paradox, Nexus faces a harder challenge: building an organization that can operate at machine speed without losing governance, quality, or people.
Maya and her team codify what they've learned into Specification-Driven Development. The core principle: when AI generates code from specifications, the spec is the product. The code is just a rendering. The Agile ceremonies designed for biological beings — standups, story points, two-week sprints — don't translate to agents that never burn out and never ask for clarification. This book replaces them with something that does.
Priya Sharma's evolution from celebrated coder to Lead Cognitive Architect, and Marcus Webb's reinvention from meeting-runner to agent governance strategist, are the human story of what transformation actually costs — and what it can build.
Audiobook details
GenreTechnology
Length3 hrs 14 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateMar 29, 2026
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1The Anti-Agile Manifesto
2Why Specification Driven Development Wins
3By Mark A. Smith
4Abridged Audiobook Edition
5Chapter 1: When Machines Prefer Waterfall
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6Chapter 2: The Death of the User Story
7Chapter 3: Ambiguity is the Enemy
8Part II: Markdown as the Neural Bus
9Chapter 4: The Universal Interface
10Chapter 5: DocOps and the Living Spec
11Chapter 6: The Context Repository
12Part III: SDD in Practice
13Chapter 7: The PRD is the Product
14Chapter 8: The Agentic Loop
15Chapter 9: Linting Reality
16Part IV: The Human Role in an Agentic World
17Chapter 10: The AI Product Manager
18Chapter 11: Governance and Safety
19Chapter 12: The Long-Term Memory of Organizations
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