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Agile was always about two things: selling agile consulting and controlling developers. It was never for the developers.
by HumblyTossed 3y ago
Agile was always about two things: selling agile consulting and controlling developers.
It was never for the developers.
- dreamcompiler 3y ago"Agile" (little agile) was certainly designed by developers for developers. Your first sentence became correct after managers and MBAs co-opted the term and turned it into "AGILE" which has almost nothing to do with "agile". Maybe we should call it !AGILE ;-)
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- dev_tty01 3y agoI always thought it was for managers who have trust issues.
- pyrale 3y agoThere were some very interesting things in the agile movement before it was snuffed by sales at consultancies.
- pylua 3y agoIt started out with good intentions -- it is hard to dispute that. However, it has turned into one thing -- a fraud factory. People preaching it can be waterfall without all the proper planning of it.
- redcobra762 3y agoI feel confident I can wield Agile against bad management to protect developers with extremely high effectiveness, so in that sense I would disagree.
- elzbardico 3y agoThis is Scrum, not agile.