Oh yeah, I remember all those Morning Stand-Up Comedy Meetings at Salesforce.
Oh I thought Salesforce.com was doing well with Scrum.. Are you saying it was mostly a farce there or..?
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Seven Things I Hate About Agile
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Re: Seven Things I Hate About Agile
#122Earlier quoted context omitted.
I'd say the fact that orginizations using the work 'agile' not actually being agile goes hand in hand with old people at "agile" events. People that do it actually do it, people that want to talk about how they should be doing it just talk about it.
Those two sentences need some more exposition to connect.
No they don't
Re: Seven Things I Hate About Agile
#123I like how the opening point is ageism. Really classy.
Author here - I can make an observation about old people because I myself am 49 years old. I'm not making a value judgement about older people. That would be ageism. I'm observing that the attendees "agile" events tend to be older than most programmers, and even most IT staff. That's just demographics. Why is that? That affects a lot of things.
As I explain above the oldies are there because their 401ks tanked and they had to get back into the workforce somehow without programming skills. Hence, the Agile Coaches in the AARP set