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Overall picture: Google recognizes it's a large company that has an extreme diversity of teams with idiosyncratic goals and personalities, and doesn't prescribe
by anoncareer0212 7y ago
Overall picture: Google recognizes it's a large company that has an extreme diversity of teams with idiosyncratic goals and personalities, and doesn't prescribe _anything_
Dollars to doughnuts, there's multiple teams doing extremely prescriptive Agile, but I've never seen one in 3 years in a 2,000 employee office.
By far the most organized team I've been on merely kept track of bugs using an internal web app that renders bugs from the internal bug tracker as post-it notes arranged in columns, with each column representing a bug status (ex. assigned/started work/code in review/done).
This alone caused a ton of grumbling, meanwhile I'm sitting there gobsmacked that Scrum and Agile aren't proper nouns that everyone has highly detailed opinions on.
- aurelianito 7y agoThe team you are referring to is highly likely to be using kanban. Kanban is the destiny of agile.
- anoncareer0212 7y agoNailed it, that's the name of the internal web app :) I always hesitate to call it Kanban because my relative that's a university professor is obsessed with Proper Kanban and it's nigh-unrecognizable to me beyond the post-it notes and status
- walshemj 7y agoUsing prescriptive and agile means you are not actually doing Agile DSDM RAD or what have you in any way.