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Ok, Scrum, Extreme, Rational Unified are some processes with a degree of Agility. What are the alternatives?

• _y5hn 5y ago
  Projects of course. They don't have to adhere to some theoretical waterfall process, and anecdotally never have. There's Kanban, and any informal process a group of cross-functional people may come up with. In fact, it's much more important to make something that works, than copying some task-list because it's said to have worked somewhere else. Incidentally, and this is going to shake up the "Agile" world going forward, is the missing piece, the link to management (budgets and trust really!) and innovation (the creative spark!). That should be less about process, and much more about culture and learning. That has remained elusive and underappreciated. Google Design Sprint may be the closest "process", though will still depend more on the mentioned above. With a great team, it anyway depends on the people. Though, the experience and output also depends on who you ask. Which is why great teams may get split up, for good reasons but also bad reasons at the same time. Though try put the most brilliant people together. They will annoy eachother into oblivion. So it's about the art of building diverse teams and mixing with what's mentioned above, because nothing thrives in a vacuum.
  • jboy55 5y ago
    I would call all that you described as Agile, sorry. > In fact, it's much more important to make something that works, than copying some task-list because it's said to have worked somewhere else. > That should be less about process, and much more about culture and learning That pretty much describes the manifesto. If you are saying regimented Scrum implemented by a rigid command hierarchy that assigns stories and demands story points per sprint. Well, those management hierarchies existed in the pre-scrum project world in spades, just as it exists now. Those management systems do not want to allow creative engineers, they want factory workers who they can measure the relative output and remove the lowest performers. They exist outside of any 'process' framework, or manifesto or the lack of one. What probably writers of the manifesto did not completely see, is these management structures signing up for their manifesto trainings, then turning around and doing what they always did.
    • _y5hn 5y ago
      Hence my first comment ;) Good post, yes and branding it "Agile".