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This needs to be at the top. 90% of what is sold to me as "Agile" is not at all agile. It is unproductive snake-oil sold by people that benefit by playing with

by lhnz 12y ago

This needs to be at the top. 90% of what is sold to me as "Agile" is not at all agile. It is unproductive snake-oil sold by people that benefit by playing with numbers, taking credit and acting as whip. Nowadays the existence of the word in job descriptions is actually a filter for poorly-run companies. Either they unconsciously swallowed the Kool-Aid or there is a lack of managerial trust in the builders and they have chosen to sacrifice work output for an emotionally comforting feeling of control. The insinuation from many companies that anybody would want Agile processes to work efficiently is ridiculous. Those that work well are agile because they intuitively or consciously follow the original principles and are part of a cohesive team that doesn't do unnecessary work.

avz 12y ago
I think more and more people realize this. The four original value statements from the Agile Manifesto are mentioned far too infrequently compared to all the processes and tools peddled by various agile salespeople. A friend of mine recently asked me to give a short presentation to a few developers working at his small software company. He suggested that Agile may be a good subject and we spent an hour discussing how his developers analyse, design, code and test their projects so that I could give a relevant talk. It turned out that what they were doing was naturally very close to agile development and the whole talk would have been a waste of everyone's time. I just gave him the link http://agilemanifesto.org http://agilemanifesto.org and ended up talking about XSS.
redthrowaway 12y ago
>Nowadays the existence of the word in job descriptions is actually a filter for poorly-run companies I've noticed this, as well. In those friendly little emails LinkedIn keeps sending me, the companies who claim to be big-A Agile are the ones that seem like the least enjoyable to work for. The ones that actually are agile and would be fun to work for find other ways to signal that fact - mostly by using descriptions that show them to be developer-centric and focussed on software.

by lhnz 12y ago

avz 12y ago

I think more and more people realize this. The four original value statements from the Agile Manifesto are mentioned far too infrequently compared to all the processes and tools peddled by various agile salespeople. A friend of mine recently asked me to give a short presentation to a few developers working at his small software company. He suggested that Agile may be a good subject and we spent an hour discussing how his developers analyse, design, code and test their projects so that I could give a relevant talk. It turned out that what they were doing was naturally very close to agile development and the whole talk would have been a waste of everyone's time. I just gave him the link http://agilemanifesto.org http://agilemanifesto.org and ended up talking about XSS.

redthrowaway 12y ago

>Nowadays the existence of the word in job descriptions is actually a filter for poorly-run companies I've noticed this, as well. In those friendly little emails LinkedIn keeps sending me, the companies who claim to be big-A Agile are the ones that seem like the least enjoyable to work for. The ones that actually are agile and would be fun to work for find other ways to signal that fact - mostly by using descriptions that show them to be developer-centric and focussed on software.