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I would like to propose a different perspective in Scrum and Agile: they're really actually reasonably good. Or rather, they do go wrong, but they go wrong for
by plaguepilled 4y ago
I would like to propose a different perspective in Scrum and Agile: they're really actually reasonably good.
Or rather, they do go wrong, but they go wrong for reasons outside of the scope that a development process considers. Instead, I argue the issue is related more with the way that managers and employees interact, and the expectations they both bring to the table.
More explicitly, I am arguing that if the development process changed at a company with a manager running agile processes, the manager won't necessarily suck less if they were already bad. Likewise to the employee.
My suggested action is to treat this as a question around social environment, and tweak accordingly. This would be different for each company I would expect.
- MattPalmer1086 4y agoI had great success using scrum in central government. It freed us from the whole "get a document approved by lots of external parties before you can do anything" mentality. . It helped that because it was such a different process, they largely left us alone. They loved the regular retrospectives. They were awed to see feedback from the previous retrospective made real by the next one. By the end we delivered more for less and it actually did what the stakeholders cared about (not what people thought they wanted when we started and didn't understand it).
- bladelessninja2 4y agoExactly. I saw employees who said they have Agile implemented, but for example they were too weak to speak up, take responsibility and pursuit technical excellence. Same with managers: they say they are Agile, but trusting your employees that they will get the job done was a joke to them.