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Agile is a religion: Some smart, well-meaning people write down a couple of brief, broad suggestions on how to do better, and a few years later it's been twist
by rvense 8y ago
Agile is a religion:
Some smart, well-meaning people write down a couple of brief, broad suggestions on how to do better, and a few years later it's been twisted into an industry of people who want me to pay them for telling me that I'm living my life wrong.
- diminoten 8y agoYes, and much like a religion, there are people who refuse to see any positive elements to it, despite those elements being numerous and obvious. Also, there are larger truths that live at its heart which make discussions about the topic difficult because if you're seen as disagreeing with some of it, you're seen as disagreeing with all of it, even if you don't. What a good analogy!
- rvense 8y agoDefinitely agree! I often quote from the manifesto. Especially when dealing with Jira. I've been meaning to read the original Waterfall article as well, I've heard it's good.
- hinkley 8y agoIf you ask the home run king how to hit more home runs, you'll get a lot of advice. Some of it may actually be accurate. But I believe that if you really want to know how to hit home runs, you want to talk to the king's trainer, not the king. The king has no perspective. He has mostly only worked with himself. To put it bluntly: he's too wound up in his own bullshit to be objective. Software Developers don't have trainers. Ask a successful person how they got that way and they have a sample size of one, or a handful. All you'll get is speculation.
- draw_down 8y agoMan, what a shit idea of what religion is.