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You’ve hit my first main point of hatred against agile. It’s really a form of micromanaging in disguise. They sell it as developer empowerment but that’s just c
by goalieca 9y ago
You’ve hit my first main point of hatred against agile. It’s really a form of micromanaging in disguise. They sell it as developer empowerment but that’s just cognitive dissonance.
- YeGoblynQueenne 9y agoThat depends on the company. Some companies (in my experience) do engineer-only scrums where programmers can talk about their blockers and ask for advice from seniors; others do mixed scrums where the engineers are basically reporting their progress to the product manager or someone, and where often technical questions are discouraged. I'd tend to think the latter are "doing it wrong", but then again, who am I to say? I just know I much preferred working for the companies who did it the former way.
- watwut 9y agoThis idea that only managers micromanage and fellow engineers never do that us one of biggest agile fallacies. Also, need to ask question should not require whole team meeting.
- mmcnl 9y agoThis is not a problem of agile, it's a problem with the implementation of agile. A company that tends to micromanage that implements agile will use agile to micromanage. It's unavoidable.
- 0x445442 9y agoI've heard various forms of this response before but I'm always confused by it. If agile isn't the offending processes in question then what is agile. And if the response is it's a verb not not a noun then it's really nothing but good hackers employing tried and true practices.
- scarface74 9y agoAnytime someone complains about agile and then a "true believer" defends it as "that's not agile", it reminds me of the "No True Scotsman"
- dasmoth 9y agoQuite. I’m sure I’ve seen “no true scrummaster” used in the past to describe this form of debate.