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In this guy's defense, there is a lot of Fake Agile out there. People (business people, project managers, mostly) seem to think that Agile means using a new set
by area51org 13y ago
In this guy's defense, there is a lot of Fake Agile out there. People (business people, project managers, mostly) seem to think that Agile means using a new set of buzzwords. Standups? They're daily status reports to management, right?
- untog 13y agoStandups? They're daily status reports to management, right? More importantly, they're daily status reports to each others, internally to your team.
- Glide 13y agoRight. So one of the main smells of an ineffective methodology is going through the same motions but not realizing the intent of each action. Some examples: standups becoming daily status reports, the customer demo becoming it's own production, and let's not get started on retrospectives.
- steve-howard 13y agoIt was in my organization that I first heard the word "Scrummerfall." People learn the tools (stand-up meetings! Stories! Sprints!) but not everyone bothers to grok the purpose (I haven't seen "good agile" yet so neither have I). Agile certainly isn't unique in this regard. I've seen an MVC project with only one action on only one controller which had a ton of parameters to control its behavior. There's a balance between "I need to thoroughly understand how to use this concept idiomatically" and "I don't have time to read up on another buzzword."