Is your team Agile? How is that working out for you?

1    05 Jan 2017 00:01 by u/wizard800

Just curious how development teams are feeling about the whole DevOps movement? Our team using Agile methodologies for the most part. We use the scrum cerimonies such as Sprint Planning, Daily Standups, Sprint and Release Retrospectives. We use User Stories to describe intended functionality and Acceptance Criteria to clarify testing requirements and customer expectations. But I always wonder if there is something we are missing or something we should be doing differently...

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1 u/roznak 05 Jan 2017 19:31

Been in several ones of these of the last years. All projects fail and the teams feels miserable.

  • We are NERDS. Nerds aren't social, and aren't team players.
  • We are NERDS, Nerds want to do something useful not wasting precious time on useless meetings.
  • We are NERDS, Nerds always work at 150% of our capacity because it is fun. Agile methodology cripples our functionality and drops below 10% capacity.
  • We are NERDS, Nerds have fun in being agile, but the Agile methodology forces the Nerds into code monkeys and kills all the fun.

Also NERDS are smart people and are very aware that you give them a false sense of choice. I can guarantee you that your best NERDS already are surfing the Internet searching for a better job away from Agile.