[EN] Does Spec-Driven Development replace agile? With Graham Lee

English Edition: Will spec-driven development replace agile processes? My guest Graham Lee  (https://chironcodex.com/ ) and I discuss if there is still a place for agile software engineering in a world of AI assisted coding.

Links:

• https://martinfowler.com/articles/exploring-gen-ai/sdd-3-tools.html the discussion on spec driven development by Brigitta Boeckeler 
• https://dev.to/cleberdelima/the-end-of-agile-when-the-assumptions-beneath-your-methodology-collapse-3g12 the blog post by Cleber de Lima quoted in the episode
• https://www.sicpers.info/2025/12/is-spec-driven-development-the-end-of-agile-software-development/ Graham's blog post on spec driven development

Discussions on Spec Driven and agile development:

• https://www.inflectra.com/Ideas/Whitepaper/Is-Agile-Dead.aspx
• https://www.thoughtworks.com/en-gb/insights/blog/agile-engineering-practices/spec-driven-development-unpacking-2025-new-engineering-practices
• https://dev.to/jmontagne/mckinsey-just-killed-agile-why-commando-units-are-the-only-way-to-survive-legacy-migration-40lk
• https://marmelab.com/blog/2025/11/12/spec-driven-development-waterfall-strikes-back.html
• https://ronjeffries.com/categories/dark-scrum/ "dark scrum"
• https://www.linkedin.com/posts/adamsandman_is-agile-dead-is-ai-killing-agile-development-activity-7367308312620527616--3-2/ 
• https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/death-agile-story-points-why-im-trading-sprints-spec-driven-park-6dfke/

Some tools for spec driven development

• https://kiro.dev/ KIRO
• https://github.com/github/spec-kit GitHub’s spec-kit
• https://docs.tessl.io/ Tesla

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