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I think you might be laboring under some misapprehensions here. Are you aware who Dave Thomas truly is and his relation to "agile"? He's one of the co-signers o
by InclinedPlane 12y ago
I think you might be laboring under some misapprehensions here. Are you aware who Dave Thomas truly is and his relation to "agile"? He's one of the co-signers of the original "agile manifesto". "Agile"is his baby as much as anyone's. And he's here to say that it's being misused and abused. He's not against agility, he's saying that what passes under the "agile" moniker today has very little to do with the original conception.
- throwaway5752 12y agoI was aware of that ("Obviously Dave Thomas is a little different"), and I first read the manifesto a long time ago. I've also used ThoughWork's Mingle, and he's accepted speaking money from one of the absolute worst offenders of get-in-your-way, process-over-progress APM crapware that exists. I watched the whole video, and I'm not impressed. Same old 'no true Scotsmen' crap that is epidemic to Agile. Yes, in almost 15 years, we are all still failing Agile instead of the other way around. Only now, it's gotten so bad it needs a new name. What he should realize that he doesn't like is complexity. If you have more than a thousand developers working together across multiple related product lines with various marketing, sales, and development dependencies then the 12 original principles and $2 will get you a bottle of soda. He shouldn't be mocking Agile in the Enterprise, he should be trying to figure out what is wrong/missing in Agile that causes it to become so pathological at scale.