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Teams of good people have always been agile in the truest sense - they will find a way to organise themselves to collectively get the job done. They don't need
by Silhouette 3y ago
Teams of good people have always been agile in the truest sense - they will find a way to organise themselves to collectively get the job done. They don't need to be "empowered" by some rigid Agile process to do that. In fact it will most likely get in the way.
Agile (capital A) processes have always been trying to sell the idea that a mediocre team can be elevated if they have the right process to guide them. Whether that actually works when the team isn't good enough to self-organise anyway is debatable but that's the sales pitch.
- azangru 3y ago> Teams of good people have always been agile in the truest sense - they will find a way to organise themselves to collectively get the job done. The word "good" here is very vague :-) People can be well-intentioned ("good"), but disorganized, unskilled, or wishful-thinking. People can be strong programmers ("good"), but work by themselves, without coordinating with others. People can be good, yet have managers micromanaging them. People can be good, yet required to work on different projects at once, which breaks focus. People can be good, yet separated from the customers of stakeholders by a layer of managers. People can be good, but required to analyze and estimate the project before even starting working on it, and then be held accountable for their estimate when they run over time. And so on, and so forth.