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> Many (most?) of the early Agile promoters were owners or partners in a consultancy doing work for clients. This is a huge point that people who weren't in th
by g051051 5y ago
> Many (most?) of the early Agile promoters were owners or partners in a consultancy doing work for clients.
This is a huge point that people who weren't in the industry back then completely miss: The people behind the Agile manifesto weren't trying to figure out how to improve software development as a whole...they were looking for ways to improve their consulting business. What works for them as consultants selling consulting services doesn't make any sense for a company dev team trying to develop software.
- buescher 5y agoAlso, virtually all of them had primarily worked in enterprise software. What works for consultants on internally developed software, with a captive user base and key stakeholders who write all the checks, is not necessarily what's going to work on customer-facing products, embedded, etc.