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Yeah but did they use Agile methods and have good team velocity as they burned down the backlog? If not, how can we really be sure the project was a success?
by mlthoughts2018 7y ago
Yeah but did they use Agile methods and have good team velocity as they burned down the backlog? If not, how can we really be sure the project was a success?
- mrbonner 7y agoI like your comment but it got down voted into oblivion probably because you forgot the /s tag. Some folks are serious here.
- saagarjha 7y agoHacker News isn't very accommodating of trite humor in my experience, so I doubt /s would have helped much here.
- kolinko 7y agoAgile shares a lot in common with practices mentioned in „Mythical man-month”, which in turn was based on the good practices from the Voyager era. Also, extreme programming was based in part on the TDD from Mercury program, iirc. Having said that - yes, cargo cult agile sucks, we all know that.
- mlthoughts2018 7y agoThe surgical team analogy at the core of TMMM is totally incongruent with agile principles. The book espouses a ton of anti-agile (small a) ideas.
- mixmastamyk 7y agoMaybe, I know he highly recommended iterative development in the silver bullet essay: http://eppsnet.com/2006/06/respect-the-classics-man-no-silver-bullet/ http://eppsnet.com/2006/06/respect-the-classics-man-no-silve...
- james_s_tayler 7y agoThey had escape velocity.
- JohnJamesRambo 7y agoCheck their Slack and ask.