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Developed past-tense? Large corporations and organizations still do this to an unfortunate degree.

• rawgabbit 3y ago
  I agree large corporations still RFP and contract out this way. The vendors are now “agile” but deadlines and hard requirements are still baked into modern contracts. I can’t tell the difference between now and the bad old days.
• throwbadubadu 3y ago
  And to be realistic, also owed to their size also some things need to go that way? And it is also wrong, because even those corps don't throw the product away, but start iterating then usually. And unfortunately on the other hand "modern", scrum becomes just smaller waterfalls. It all seems to be just a spectrum of sprint length and size of your feedback loops? But I'd encourage everybody to not just bitch about it but try to live that situation, a big tanker is just much different steering than a speedboat. Unlimited scrum trainers and agile mindsets won't help that. In this sense I'm not sure what neither waterfall nor modern agile in its many variation means, just certainly it is always easy to laugh from the outside.
• marcosdumay 3y ago
  Personally, I haven't seen this for a while. Everybody I know that use contractors migrated into "let's measure the software after the fact, iterate the design, and auction on the measurement unity" that, of course, also fails all the time, but works much better. It's basically the "Scrum" people tend to use in-house with some added nonalignment of incentives to spice things up. But I don't doubt a lot of places are still auctioning requirements. I just haven't seen them lately.