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Color me cynical, but I suspect that the characteristics of Agile that made it attractive to management are the ones that lead to failure. Management looks at A
by gamble 18y ago
Color me cynical, but I suspect that the characteristics of Agile that made it attractive to management are the ones that lead to failure. Management looks at Agile and thinks, hey, we can stuff a bunch of interchangeable programmers in a tiny war room and get them pounding out code immediately - none of that 'measure twice, cut once' nonsense - just fingers on the keyboard and reams of code pounded out from day one.
- joshwa 18y agoManagers love measurement. With all the story point values and burndown charts and iteration numbers, Agile is an overzealous PM or Engineering Director's wet dream. All the dessert, none of the vegetables. On my project for my employer we're using 'agile' planning methods but we're not releasing the iteration builds to the users at all, and we have a fixed delivery date that Must Not Change. I call it 'Agile Waterfall'.
- mattmcknight 18y agoNo, that's not the problem. People are just much better at stopping the old practices than picking up the new compensating practices. For example, they drop the 500 page requirements spec but don't start talking to the users on a weekly basis and documenting the outcomes.