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In my last job, I witnessed the leadership become seduced by the Agile / Scrum industry. It started simply enough, a talk by an agile practitioner. He essential
by yellow_lead 5y ago
In my last job, I witnessed the leadership become seduced by the Agile / Scrum industry. It started simply enough, a talk by an agile practitioner. He essentially said that all of our problems could be solved by fully embracing agile. Many such solutions contained circular definitions - i.e what is the "team" in Agile? The team is whatever works best for the organization. Next, the company threw our engineers and other coworkers into two days of remote training - a complete waste of time to say the least. By this time, my company was already hiring these scrum masters.
I view the whole thing as a sort of cult/koolaid/consulting industry. The original intentions of the Agile Manifesto may be good, and I admit there are some good ideas in there, but the entire industry that has formed around it is a waste of money IMO.
- ethbr0 5y agoWhat is the problem that Agile attempts to solve? That your organization is too siloed and ignorant of the what colleagues do to write proper requirements. And that your engineers are too ignorant and siloed to speak up when requirements aren't appropriate. And more formality, rote obedience to procedure, and documentation are going to solve this? Tl;dr - If your organizational culture is fucked up and not working, fix your organizational culture. There's not enough agile in the world to build on top of a cracked foundation.