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You haven't seen cargo cult until you've worked in an organisation with a pmo, and tranditional project management. I had to literally write a 5 page business
by UK-AL 9y ago
You haven't seen cargo cult until you've worked in an organisation with a pmo, and tranditional project management.
I had to literally write a 5 page business case for relatively small features that takes more than 5 days. You then had to get it approved by the pmo board. These people have no product management skills either.
Once it's a approved I have to write a full plan and schedule.
Companies like this exist.
This is what agile was a reaction to.
- dullgiulio 9y agoThe problem is that the companies that "went agile" just added some cargo cult practices they learned by some Agile consultant /in addition/ to the old practices you describe. You know, I am sure many of those Agile consultants that big companies hire don't even know what the Agile Manifesto is. Agile is not agile.
- klenwell 9y agoI've seen 50-page project specs written before the dev team even new there was a new project. But PMO board. Ouch. At the other extreme, you have your process-adverse adhocracy where your brilliant new lead developer unilaterally decides the first step in fixing the latest issue with your existing CRUD application written in PHP is to write a new Node framework. Meanwhile, junior developers are getting bombarded directly by anyone in the organization who encounters a problem while using their keyboard. Companies like this exist. Maybe not quite this extreme. But I've encountered a few variations on this theme and they've given me a deeper appreciation for agile concepts and terminology.
- Angostura 9y agoThis can actually be very useful as it insulates your dev team from some VP wandering across and demanding a pet feature be implemented. The VP has to negotiate the PMO board first
- UK-AL 9y agoA product owner in agile can do exactly the same without the overhead.