How the foolish try to lay the blame for their own failures on a hammer… Not to mention the misuse of the adjective Agile.
Note: My first novel, Farisaās Crossing, will be released in spring 2022.
Agility is a good thing, no doubt, and the Agile Manifesto isnāt unreasonable. Compared to a straw-man practice called āWaterfallā, Agile is notably superior. Yet, so much of Agile as-practiced is deeply harmful, and I donāt really think that the Agile/Waterfall dichotomy is useful in the first place.
Thereās a variety of Agile, called Scrum, that Iāve seen actually kill a company. By ākillā, I donāt mean āthe culture wasnāt as good afterwardā. Rather, I mean that its stock dropped by almost 90 percent in less than two years.
What is Agile?
Agile grew up inĀ web consulting, where it had a certain amount of value: when dealing with finicky clients who donāt know what they want, one typically has to choose between one of two options. The first is to manage the client: get expectations setā¦
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