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You sound like me a couple of years ago until I realized I was the problem the whole while Why was I contributing to this madness when I knew better? So I too

• 29athrowaway 7y ago
  What you describe makes me think that you pivoted from an engineering role into a product role in order to make agile to work for you. This only reaffirms what I said, because if agile really empowered you as an engineer that transition would not have happened.
  • artsyca 7y ago
    No. I went directly to the client and sold them on the idea of iterative process from first principles The difference is that the emphasis is on knowledge creation and relationship building Believe me that there is a way to do the right thing by everyone but most people set themselves up for failure at the outset It's both way simpler and much more complex than most people can truly appreciate
  • artsyca 7y ago
    By the way the word pivot is largely misunderstood It means to change the approach while maintaining the vision and values My values have always been on teamwork and knowledge creation and I pivoted in the sense of changing the approach but not in the sense of changing the vision