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Agile is nowhere near an end... People just aren't willing to admit the parts of it that are Kool Aid, and the parts that are useful because it's a profit mach
by winternett 7y ago
Agile is nowhere near an end...
People just aren't willing to admit the parts of it that are Kool Aid, and the parts that are useful because it's a profit machine (books, training, merch, etc)as well as a methodology for getting things done in projects.
I have never seen anyone implement agile fully in my world, it's usually 50% or below in terms of adoption rate. Passing around a hockey stick is a gimmicky thing, and I've always avoided the silly ideas, i want to go to work, stick to the points, get things done right and then go home... Sprint Poker, passing a hockey stick, agile toys, going to Agile conferences etc can be left to agile coaches if you ask me.
- commandlinefan 7y agoIf capital-A “Agile” ever ends, it will be replaced by something with a different name that takes exactly the same form. How do I know? Because I’m old enough to remember before there was capital-A “Agile”, and the original XP/Agile manifesto came along and within a few years was bastardized into exactly what came before it: the expectation that with enough meetings and unreasonable enough demands, software development could be a perfectly predictable, cookie-cutter endeavor, as uneventful as manufacturing sheet metal.
- winternett 7y agoAgreed, before Agile there was Waterfall, RUP, and many other theories of assembly line management processes. They are all based on starting universities for the way to produce a product, and these paradigms all came from auto makers... It's a constantly spinning wheel... Can't be stopped...