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It's important for me to separate the principles behind these methodologies, from the industries that spawn up around them to sell guides and certifications and
by ozmbie 9y ago
It's important for me to separate the principles behind these methodologies, from the industries that spawn up around them to sell guides and certifications and books and conference tickets.
Adhering to the ideas of clear goal-setting, team communication, autonomy, and iterative development have never had bad outcomes for me. But formalising them into a ruleset for any arbitrary team doesn't capture everything.
- thearn4 9y agoAgreed. It's worth separating things like agile from Agile™®.
- williamdclt 9y agoI do agree with you, but saying "I adhere to the ideas of clear goal-setting, team communication, autonomy, and iterative development" doesn't lead you anywhere: you need tools and actual processes to convert this adhesion to an idea into the materialization of this idea. And that's where those companies intervene: they build an implementation of those ideas. The implementation is not adapted for any project and team and it is lossy regarding the original principles, but it has the advantage of having being seriously thought about, tested and scalable.