As you all might or might not know I am not a wood worker by trade, wood working is my hobby. Technical Solution Architecture is my trade, once my hobby but that is a different post!
To that end I have seen many different methodologies but I have not seen the realism portrayed better than by Scott Berkun and his responders to his blog entry on development methodologies.
I hope you enjoy this as much as I did.
I think my least favorite brand is:
EDD (Expert Driven Development)
This is where the development activities and decision are driven from one expert. This expert overrules all either by force of will or just because he/she is thought of as the expert and all others defer. The rub comes in, of course, when the expert is not really an expert...