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I feel most of the criticism towards Agile coming from devs misses an important point: how it’s used to show the progress of a project to the people outside of
by pammf 4y ago
I feel most of the criticism towards Agile coming from devs misses an important point: how it’s used to show the progress of a project to the people outside of the team.
Unless you are part of a completely autonomous team, you need to communicate progress in a way that’s more informative than saying “trust me and leave us alone, it will be delivered in X months”.
Spending time in meetings or writing down and discussing what you think that should be done next indeed can create an overhead (even more when the frameworks is abused or done wrong), but epics, stories, sprints and demos provide a more detailed way of communicating and demonstrating progress to whoever it is relevant.
- donatj 4y agoIt’s horse before the cart though. It’s definitionally organizing work so it’s easy to understand and measure, rather than easy to actually work on. That’s not an optimal way to get work done. It’s metrics.
- pammf 4y agoTrue, but metrics shouldn’t be downplayed given they are what boards/owners will be looking into when deciding to keep investing in a project or abort it - then both carts and horses become irrelevant. It is somewhat utopian to think that companies paying for the development of whatever will patiently wait for (and fund) a team for months without any evidence of progress stronger than the promise of devs/managers that one day it will be delivered.