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I definitely agree with the author. Agile is increasingly being used to justify having no plan and just getting devs to do whatever seems most important to a "p
by Robin_Message 8y ago
I definitely agree with the author. Agile is increasingly being used to justify having no plan and just getting devs to do whatever seems most important to a "product owner" each sprint without the real customer feedback that is an essential part of agile.
I blame scrum for commodotising and cargo-culting all the good stuff out of agile. I'm writing a blog series on the problems with Scrum here: https://www.lambdacambridge.com/blog/2018-05-how-scrum-destroyed-agile https://www.lambdacambridge.com/blog/2018-05-how-scrum-destr...
Interestingly, DSDM, which the author uses, doesn't get much attention, but was there from the beginning of the Agile movement.
- madeofpalk 8y agoDon't you think the blame here on the methodology is misplaced? It just sounds like a bad team/company, that'll perform just as poorly with "waterfall"
- amiga-workbench 8y agoA bad team will always find a way to pay lip service to any process or workflow you throw at them and still fall back on their old dysfunctional habits. Its never the process at fault, its the gaping disconnect between the specification of that process and the implementation.
- s73v3r_ 8y agoI don't disagree, but I have to think that agile/scrum with a bad company just exacerbates the pain.
- maxxxxx 8y agoTotally agree. Bad management will mess up any methodology and good management will make almost any methodology work. Good people will just adjust things until they are OK.
- mianos 8y agoThe key is, if the 'product owner' is not the end user, they are not the customer. They are often beholden to the more senior management and are more focussed on making their bosses happy with progress reports and demonstating how well they are performing. All this, while playing a theatre of customer centric focus and high velocity.
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