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Glad to see disdain for "agile" is finally becoming mainstream. Now, it may be that someone writing rote software should follow a process, but for anyone doing
by wissler 15y ago
Glad to see disdain for "agile" is finally becoming mainstream. Now, it may be that someone writing rote software should follow a process, but for anyone doing anything actually innovative, you can't get into their head and tell them what process they must follow, whether waterfall or agile. It's like telling Michelangelo the process for sculpting.
Rather than teaching people processes, they should help foster better ways of actually thinking about the code itself. E.g., learning new programming languages and frameworks gives one a variety of perspectives to think about code from.
- Drbble 15y agoMocking Agile strawman has been a pop pastime since Yegge wrote Good Agile Bad Agile years ago.
- wpietri 15y agoI think you can't effectively impose process, but I do think that good teams can happily decide what process they're going to follow. Which is how we got Extreme Programming in the first place.
- wissler 15y agoWhy stop at teams? How about "good departments happily deciding"? Or "good companies happily deciding"? Or "good nations happily deciding"?