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The last 7-odd years in my 20 year career, 50 (very smart) people, multiple teams. Long enough to watch it spread through a company, with the attendant disrupti
by jrabone 15y ago
The last 7-odd years in my 20 year career, 50 (very smart) people, multiple teams. Long enough to watch it spread through a company, with the attendant disruption, only to be revised away as the realisation set in that, like so many silver bullets, it was only nickel-plated at best.
Now I'm watching as another 'Agile' team pushes 6x4 cards around (at least they've managed to adopt a half-assed electronic version of that). Sadly there's no methodology that'll save them, but that's a different problem.
- marcusf 15y agoThen I don't get the hostility displayed in your original comment. Of course it's not a silver bullet, it's a set of tools for managing development together with a philosophy of work. YMMV but we've used several agile ideas (for example iterations, retrospectives, stop-the-line) to great effect to reign in scope creep, increase quality, reduce overtime and make people happier, overall.