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It's hard for me to dislike this, because I also find standups and sprint planning meetings to be painful and somewhat less than useful for myself. On the othe
by cbanek 8y ago
It's hard for me to dislike this, because I also find standups and sprint planning meetings to be painful and somewhat less than useful for myself.
On the other hand, when you are with a new team, or a team with a few people that need mentoring, or going in a new direction, I find that it's important to force people to coordinate, because many times people will just run off in random directions you don't want them to. You really have to have the best people, and trust their instincts if you follow what the article suggests. Any weak players on your team will just be lost and potentially set you back (or at best, just waste their time).
- zebraflask 8y agoExactly. This could work well in teams where the engineers are all competent and really just need the PM to stay out of their way. In weak teams, this could easily see an end-of-quarter with unmet deliverables and other management messes. A lot of people would take advantage of the hands-off approach as much as they could. Either way, Agile is ridiculous so I agree with the author about that.
- jiveturkey 8y ago> In weak teams, Agile is largely about managing weaker teams.