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Shorten the iteration or abort it midway? Not gonna happen. Management loves having a Monday to Friday iteration. That structure and control is way more impo
by Avernar 9y ago
Shorten the iteration or abort it midway? Not gonna happen. Management loves having a Monday to Friday iteration. That structure and control is way more important to them than reaponding to change.
Shortening the iterations means you now how to rechop all your tasks and do the estimates again wasting even more time. Also the smaller the task the less people focus on the bigger picture and your software just turns into a mess of puzzle pieces.
Just my experiences from having to go through Agile Hell.
- trentnix 9y agoThen that confirms my OP - everyone wants to embrace the cosmetic pieces but the actual meat of Agile is ignored. Every control has to have consequences, or else bad behavior has no cost. Your organization is addicted to what the calendar says, and the software is neglected. The consequences are suboptimal productivity and/or quality. Appearing to work has more value than completing work. No software process is immune to leadership failures. Wasting time? Measuring twice and cutting once is done because it saves time. As a shirt I saw recently said, "weeks of programming saves hours of planning".