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Maybe Agile was one of these things, but then a bunch of people started doing it literally.
by bee_rider 1y ago
Maybe Agile was one of these things, but then a bunch of people started doing it literally.
- TimTheTinker 1y agoThe original manifesto wasn't[0], but it's certainly likely a lot of cargo-cult "Agile" is. [0] https://agilemanifesto.org/ https://agilemanifesto.org/
- twic 1y agoOther way round, i think. The original form had a lot of weird practices which actually worked. The form most common today is just lip service.
- throwanem 1y agoThe weird practices worked as reported, but as an accident of the context where they arose. Outside that, they're about as robust as really rare orchids, which I think to their credit the authors realized, hence all the "don't take our word for it!" with which they hedged around their wildly bestselling school of management consultancy.
- p1necone 1y agoI like to say that the outwardly visible practices and processes of highly effective teams are mostly symptoms, not causes of their success. You can't invert the causal relationship.
- marcosdumay 1y ago> but then a bunch of people started doing it literally Most people doing "agile" do literally the opposite of what is on the manifesto.
- jama211 1y agoLol yep. Our company decided “sprints” were now to last 4 weeks, but there’s also no task scheduling, no retro, no sprint planning… just tasks get given whenever they come up based on what they feel like. So… what’s the point of a “sprint”? We don’t even do monthly releases. It’s hilarious. I suspect we do “agile” in name only so they can pretend to the board that there is a system at all.
- marcosdumay 1y agoYou already got to oppose of the manifesto in the "Our company decided" part...
- jama211 1y agolol yep