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What are the alternatives to agile? As a junior I have only worked under 2 systems: “we want to do agile”, and agile with stand ups and user stories. Both have
by wodenokoto 7y ago
What are the alternatives to agile? As a junior I have only worked under 2 systems: “we want to do agile”, and agile with stand ups and user stories.
Both have been presented as an alternative to waterfall, as if that are the two things you can do.
For software with very little end user surface (big data pipeline with lots of Datawashing and training of different models that eventual spits out a prediction) user stories seems extremely shoehorned.
“As an end user a want a product recommendation” and that’s your whole product right there. From there on it just starts getting awkward. “As a data ingestion pipeline I want data to ingest”. Seriously?
- officialchicken 7y agoYou may not actually be practicing agile, rather participating in a cargo-cult of agile. Be aware of "magic" rituals versus required activities to keep moving the project forward. If it's software (w/o a manufacturing aspect) you're probably doing some variant of spiral-based development since software is never done - it's only abandoned. Hybrid-waterfall methodologies do exist, and it's cheaper to write specs and designs than to write and debug code. Use Given-When-Then (GWT) format specs to validate, because "As a birthday gift, I wanna pony" format doesn't verify and validate.