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Has forced Agile ever turned out well at an organization? I've seen this done many times before and I've never seen it work well. Organizations typically end
by Yhippa 11y ago
Has forced Agile ever turned out well at an organization? I've seen this done many times before and I've never seen it work well. Organizations typically end up shoehorning waterfall into whatever stuff the consultants sold them. I think Agile can work with the right group of people but not getting buy-in from the ground-up is very dangerous and can really demoralize a shop.
- gherkin0 11y agoAlso, the "forced" flavor of agile tends to be one that is disconnected from the trade offs that make agile work. I was in a shop that had a forced agile adoption. The development teams were all enthusiastic about it, went to training, etc. However, the very same managers that pushed it didn't understand it so we got: * hard delivery dates with fixed functionality (though we could drop small features at the margins) * lots of useless planning/status reporting ceremony (more than pre-agile) * pressure to "just start coding" instead of gathering requirements (since "we're agile now") * very litter tolerance for going back and fixing things that weren't done right (made more common by the above bullet) It didn't really work, and most of those managers are gone now.