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God yes - While working at a large bank I once saw an Agile consultant give a presentation to us. His words: "We find that when teams aren't succeeding with agi
by andy_boot 15y ago
God yes - While working at a large bank I once saw an Agile consultant give a presentation to us. His words: "We find that when teams aren't succeeding with agile it is because they had only adopted some of the agile processes instead of all of it and that hadn't been trained properly by an expert "
I threw up a little.
- kabdib 15y agoThis is PRECISELY what you hear from folks who are trying to sell you religion, or stuff like EST. "Of course it's not working, you're not doing it right. We'd be happy to work with you some more on that." Followed by the "ka-Ching!" as they cash your check for the consultancy. Agile is so often turned into a micromanager's paradise that I've just stopped involving myself in it. Our team holds scrums, none of the engineers show up. It's pathetic.
- kragen 15y agoYou'll hear the same thing about any difficult discipline. Surgery, painting, programming, auto repair, biological experiments, chemistry, mechanical engineering, and so on.
- anthonyb 15y agoYeah, the "trained properly by an expert" is a bit of a giveaway, isn't it? That said, I've worked in a scrum team and most of our issues were caused by not following the common sense stuff in scrum, things like "don't change the spec halfway through" or "have a clearly specified story".