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It's perverted by the companies first and secondarily by the consultants as the enablers. Most companies have never cared and do not care for anything agile or
by borplk 9y ago
It's perverted by the companies first and secondarily by the consultants as the enablers.
Most companies have never cared and do not care for anything agile or anything manifesto.
For them Agile™ is nothing but a brand name and a weapon that legitimises the way they want to exert power over their employees.
They cherry pick elements from the methodology. Change it to their liking and slap the professionally accepted label on it.
That's how the pointy-haired manager turns daily standup to daily micro management meeting and daily beatings with a stick.
Basically no development methodology survives the conflicts of interest at play in the long run.
- greenrd 9y agoI don't think that's necessarily a case of conflict of interest, but merely misunderstanding what agile methodologies are really about. They're really quite radical.
- borplk 9y agoThe reason the methodologies get butchered is partially and substantially because different forces try to pull it to their own side for their own benefit. The behaviour is too sophisticated for it to be merely an innocent misunderstanding. On some level it is being knowingly manipulated and weaponised. It's inevitable because essentially every methodology is a very fuzzy description of a set of ideas and practices so people and groups will interpret it in a way that benefits them.
- greenrd 9y agoYes, too little attention is paid to the motivations for doing it, and the political obstacles that can be placed in the way - the founders of agile were quite naive about office politics and sociology, in my estimation.