In my opinion the problem with Agile is that developers are focusing too much on the process and not enough on the product:
http://effectivesoftwaredesign.com/2014/01/20/attention-agil...
Agile Is Dead: The Angry Developer Version
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#72Earlier quoted context omitted.
Wow. I've always wondered: Is this kind of empty, buzzwordy writing effective? Does it sell? So many companies write this way. I could believe they do so only because their staff never learned how to write good sales copy. Or is there some actual merit to it? Do they know something I don't--namely, that buzzwords sell?
I think it's a joke, just based on the obvious word reuse: > We are an innovation focused services firm with 100% focus in the emerging technologies. This razor sharp focus has allowed us to differentiate from our competitors in many different ways:
Maybe. Though the page, taken in the context of the overall site, doesn't scream satire. I'd be disinclined to put a joke page on my consultancy's website, but if I did, I'd be sure to make the joke 110% clear. So my suspicion is that the word reuse is just the writer's habit, not evidence of a joke. (Many writers have such habits, especially amongst those of us who aren't writers by trade.)
Re: Agile Is Dead: The Angry Developer Version
#73I agree with everything you say. Good simple idea become a source of money with all the classes and certification that just kill the idea.
Re: Agile Is Dead: The Angry Developer Version
#74Earlier quoted context omitted.
Wow. I've always wondered: Is this kind of empty, buzzwordy writing effective? Does it sell? So many companies write this way. I could believe they do so only because their staff never learned how to write good sales copy. Or is there some actual merit to it? Do they know something I don't--namely, that buzzwords sell?
I think it's a joke, just based on the obvious word reuse: > We are an innovation focused services firm with 100% focus in the emerging technologies. This razor sharp focus has allowed us to differentiate from our competitors in many different ways:
I've actually had some personal interaction with this company, and I'm pretty sure that the writing style is not satire and not a joke. It's the way somebody actually writes.
Re: Agile Is Dead: The Angry Developer Version
#75The choice of syllables is irrelevant. The choice of values is what matters.
As Dave says, there are a whole bunch of people selling heavy tools and frameworks and calling them "Agile" where they are anything but. Safety, to pick the obvious example, is not an Agile value, and numerous commentators have called SAFe nothing but RUP in Agile clothing.
Declaring Agile dead seems a bit naff, but obviously the manifesto lacks values and principles to address Dave and Richard's concerns.
So I've kicked off an initiative to do exactly that. Agile: The Next Generation or A:TNG for short, augments but does not replace the Manifesto values with four new ones specific to Agile at scale. It offers pattern languages (not frameworks or methodologies) based on Kurosawa's The Seven Samurai" and the thousand year Iroquois Confederacy.
Most importantly it rebases the whole Agile Alliance shtick on github, where it can be properly open and we can properly self-organise and evolve it without some clique of middle aged white guys dictating to the community at conferences.
Details and some starter patterns are up at http://agiletng.org .
So, yes, Agile is dead. And long live Agile! -- Peter Merel.