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I have to disagree that Agile is any kind of solution to this. I've seen it fail too many times. If implemented correctly, maybe, but that rarely happens.
by snarfy 8y ago
I have to disagree that Agile is any kind of solution to this. I've seen it fail too many times. If implemented correctly, maybe, but that rarely happens. And why is that? Why so many Agile horror stories?
There is a real lack of leadership in the world, at all levels of society. It's not something an ideal like agile can fix. Without good leaders we end up with broken agile. I'm pretty sure NASA has a good engineering process. It doesn't matter if nobody listens.
- Udik 8y ago> if implemented correctly, maybe, but that rarely happens. It's OT, but isn't it funny that we think that by applying in the exactly correct way a method that, to my knowledge, wasn't born from fundamental principles or hard science, you should get all the results you don't get when taking some liberties with it? I mean, where does the assurance that the method works better than any variation of it come from?
- mcv 8y agoAgile is not a thing that fixes things. Agile is a set of principles. People over process, and that sort of thing. Blindly implementing Agile as a process ignores that basic principle of Agile. In this particular case, there was a person, and expert, who saw a very real danger and was overruled by people who lacked his expertise because his opinion was inconvenient to them. That's not good. If an expert sounds the alarm, you listen to him, no matter how inconvenient it may be. And in Agile and maybe more explicitly in Lean, the people who do the work are empowered to make decisions regarding their work. Responsibility shouldn't lie entirely with people who may be distracted by other concerns.