Agile is crap to me in most cases. It can be useful in some situations, especially when you are crossing multiple disciplines, but generally it creates projects that have to go back and forth too much. Before we became "agile" it was so much easier to modify a project to meet a changing or misunderstood need. Now that requires everyone to go back to the beginning. Before we used to get all the stakeholders together to determine what was needed with the folks who were going to actually do it in from the beginning. Now we don't have actual technical people in most projects until late in the game. On top of that, everyone has their own little fiefdom to handle and they don't want anyone else stepping into it. Truth is that every method of doing things has a use case. Agile is good for very large and long projects, especially those that cross 3 or more teams. Traditional works for tons of other cases.
Agile and SCRUM seem similar to communism/socialism in that its sold as a cure all to the problems, but seems often to devolve into something else and when it fails is blamed that it wasn't real Agile.
It's an easy out for managers who can't do their job. They just say "we implemented scrum to the best of our ability and even hired more people on to make sure that scrum is working as designed."
Do your fucking job and run the company you dipshits, none of this is necessary.
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0 u/SquarebobSpongebutt 14 Jan 2018 01:41
Agile is crap to me in most cases. It can be useful in some situations, especially when you are crossing multiple disciplines, but generally it creates projects that have to go back and forth too much. Before we became "agile" it was so much easier to modify a project to meet a changing or misunderstood need. Now that requires everyone to go back to the beginning. Before we used to get all the stakeholders together to determine what was needed with the folks who were going to actually do it in from the beginning. Now we don't have actual technical people in most projects until late in the game. On top of that, everyone has their own little fiefdom to handle and they don't want anyone else stepping into it. Truth is that every method of doing things has a use case. Agile is good for very large and long projects, especially those that cross 3 or more teams. Traditional works for tons of other cases.
0 u/TheTrigger 14 Jan 2018 02:41
I never got the point of it, tbqh. It just seems like random IRL boilerplate/"corporate structure"/"managers justifying their salaries" BS, to me.
0 u/2nddammit 14 Jan 2018 04:32
One more way for business degrees to screw up things they should never be involved in.
0 u/QuitWaistingOurMoney 14 Jan 2018 05:07
Agile and SCRUM seem similar to communism/socialism in that its sold as a cure all to the problems, but seems often to devolve into something else and when it fails is blamed that it wasn't real Agile.
0 u/MrKequc 24 Jan 2018 18:30
It's an easy out for managers who can't do their job. They just say "we implemented scrum to the best of our ability and even hired more people on to make sure that scrum is working as designed."
Do your fucking job and run the company you dipshits, none of this is necessary.