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It’s a very nice article. I’ve not seen agile done as originally visioned. Usually because the VP Engineering (or equivalent) and down wants to do it but the re
by quickthrower2 5y ago
It’s a very nice article. I’ve not seen agile done as originally visioned. Usually because the VP Engineering (or equivalent) and down wants to do it but the rest of the business isn’t interested.
Also the pattern I’ve seen is over time businesses want more and more fine grained control over the engineering process, as if treating the team like replaceable workers doing well defined tasks (like Ray Croc I guess) leads to more efficiency.
This doesn’t work when the burger and chips has zero cost of replication and your staff are not frying and serving chips, they are inventing new cuisines every day.
- sz4kerto 5y agoAgile is not about "mean efficiency", this is a serious and widespread misunderstanding. Agile is a risk management method. You won't build things faster with agile in general. It's aim is to decrease the chances of spending 80 manyears on a project and then realising at the end that you've built the wrong thing.
- beermonster 5y agoWell, a fluidity thing. But yes that’s related to risk. Being able to change direction at the drop of a hat. Also working with poor requirements which is a fairly common working condition in a lot of shops.