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I'm old enough to have extensive experience from before agile methodologies were in vogue and things are generally better with Scrum / Agile than they were befo
by The_Colonel 3y ago
I'm old enough to have extensive experience from before agile methodologies were in vogue and things are generally better with Scrum / Agile than they were before, ceteris paribus.
Sometimes the process worked better, sometimes worse. It depends a lot on the company culture and people. The company I'm currently at has a very good process (SAFe).
(I'm an engineer to clarify)
- torginus 3y agoI also think there is a certain comorbidity of an organization pushing scrum heavily and other dysfunctions. From what I've heard before my time, a lot of traditional organizations had a non-flat hierarchy and a set of 'bosses' - people in charge of personnel, planning, requirements, and technical decisions. In 'modern' orgs this has been replaced by a 'matrix' structure with each team having a dedicated product owner, scrum master, line manager, requirements engineer, architect etc. While the traditional org structure had some shortcomings, mainly having to do with the fact that if said boss didn't perform, then the team had no chance, and that so much institutional knowledge was locked up in said boss, that they were nigh-impossible to replace. Modern management techniques are about replacing potential excellence with guaranteed mediocrity.