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An agile project manager is the stupidest concept ever. A lean process requires no ceremonial positions, bean counters or project trolls. If you have an agile
by gouranga 14y ago
An agile project manager is the stupidest concept ever.
A lean process requires no ceremonial positions, bean counters or project trolls.
If you have an agile project manager, welcome to extreme waterfall programming.
Note: this is from experience of watching lots of people fuck up the whole agile thing miserably in the following way: http://www.halfarsedagilemanifesto.org/ http://www.halfarsedagilemanifesto.org/
- slantyyz 14y agoI liked this quote from the article: > Explain that velocity is not a productivity metric Velocity isn't always about productivity. Sometimes it's about survival. I worked in a startup (making enterprise software) right after the first bubble, and the company "practiced" its own version of scrum. We had a small runway and small sales, and the development team insisted on setting its own pace. The fact that we had to have stuff to sell to make money for our paycheques didn't seem to matter to development. Needless to say, I managed to get the hell out of Dodge before the bank accounts went empty, but a good chunk of the dev team stuck around, plodding for months without pay. It took months before the dev team realized no more money (including backpay) was coming and most of the remaining people finally left. With no major release to sell. If velocity is required to make development a financially sustainable effort, it can't be dismissed outright.