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Agile works but where companies fail miserably is the implementation. Especially many of those that go with Scrum (or its flavors). They treat Scrum Master as a

by stunt 6y ago

Agile works but where companies fail miserably is the implementation. Especially many of those that go with Scrum (or its flavors). They treat Scrum Master as a person instead of a role within the team. So they assign a non-engineer to an engineering team permanently that has some influence on the way of working without ever guiding the team to be self managed agile team.

Viliam1234 6y ago
Most companies implement ScrumBut https://www.scrum.org/resources/what-scrumbut https://www.scrum.org/resources/what-scrumbut For example: Scrum, but retrospectives are a waste of time so we don't do them here (or keep them as short as possible, because no one cares about your feedback anyway); and you can estimate the story points, but the management has already decided that the deadline for these features is one month, so your choice is really which ones you want to implement during the first two weeks, and which ones during the second two weeks, now go ahead and do your little Scrum poker ritual. Meanwhile, on the Scrum training they tell you that the retrospective is the most important part of the Scrum; that everything else can be dropped if necessary but you must keep the retrospective at all cost. Then you get the certificate, and then the management tells you "that's nice, but we do it differently here". Management wants the buzzwords, and perhaps some of the rituals, but not any actual change. You are free to do Scrum, as long as you only select the parts convenient for them, and remove everything inconvenient for them. The same would happen with any other methodology.
paulmooreparks 6y ago
Agile, and Scrum in particular, is a lot like Communism and faith healing. When it doesn't work, its adherents claim the failure was due to not implementing it correctly or not believing in it enough.
- lmm 6y ago
  There's no such thing as a process that works when you don't actually follow it. Most critics of Agile are like recipe reviewers: "I ran out of sugar so I substituted goats' milk, and that sounds like a lot of flour so I used half as much. Tasted awful, 1/5."

by stunt 6y ago

Viliam1234 6y ago

Most companies implement ScrumBut https://www.scrum.org/resources/what-scrumbut https://www.scrum.org/resources/what-scrumbut For example: Scrum, but retrospectives are a waste of time so we don't do them here (or keep them as short as possible, because no one cares about your feedback anyway); and you can estimate the story points, but the management has already decided that the deadline for these features is one month, so your choice is really which ones you want to implement during the first two weeks, and which ones during the second two weeks, now go ahead and do your little Scrum poker ritual. Meanwhile, on the Scrum training they tell you that the retrospective is the most important part of the Scrum; that everything else can be dropped if necessary but you must keep the retrospective at all cost. Then you get the certificate, and then the management tells you "that's nice, but we do it differently here". Management wants the buzzwords, and perhaps some of the rituals, but not any actual change. You are free to do Scrum, as long as you only select the parts convenient for them, and remove everything inconvenient for them. The same would happen with any other methodology.

paulmooreparks 6y ago

Agile, and Scrum in particular, is a lot like Communism and faith healing. When it doesn't work, its adherents claim the failure was due to not implementing it correctly or not believing in it enough.

lmm 6y ago
There's no such thing as a process that works when you don't actually follow it. Most critics of Agile are like recipe reviewers: "I ran out of sugar so I substituted goats' milk, and that sounds like a lot of flour so I used half as much. Tasted awful, 1/5."