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This article describes some seriously clueless agile practices. A massive reorg and restructuring dictated from the top to enable agile, a bottom-up methodolog

This article describes some seriously clueless agile practices. A massive reorg and restructuring dictated from the top to enable agile, a bottom-up methodology. They dictate that everyone must do Scrum - even support departments for which it's laughably mismatched - rather than allowing any level of team-driven process selection, and then 9 months later they open it up to allowing teams to choose, including letting them choose waterfall. Their messaging was this was always the plan, which is either a lie as apparently many people at MIT believe, or evidence that of even deeper cluelessness. My opinion is that this Charles character has no business running a technology org.

merpnderp 11y ago
"Okay Bob, what are you working on today?" "Ah, I'm handling support tickets. Same as I did yesterday, the day before that, the week before that, and the month before that." "Any roadblocks?" "Nope, I'm tier one support. When I can't quickly handle an issue, I push it up the support ladder. I don't have any roadblocks today, and I won't have any roadblocks tomorrow or the day after, or even the week after that. Unless of course you mean the 4 missed support calls that just occurred because I was on the SCRUM call."