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0 pointsintelVISA2y ago0 comments

Agile shaman took the wheel

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psunavy032y ago· 4 in thread

Agile done properly is literally the opposite of this. Big Important Exec spouting Agile terms they don't understand and cluelessly forcing top-down crap on the teams, more likely. Normalize your story points, prole! Daddy needs metrics!

torginus2y ago

Personally, I've never seen 'Agile' done well. Every project where we made good progress was engineer driven. We talked to customers about what they wanted so see and we created tasks and implemented them.

Every project managed by a dedicated servant-leader Six Sigma Kanban certified Scrum ninja-coach project has been a bureaucratic shitshow, with constant cargo culting to agile priniciples and forced ceremonies.

_w1tm2y ago

> Personally, I've never seen 'Agile' done well. Every project where we made good progress was engineer driven. We talked to customers about what they wanted so see and we created tasks and implemented them.

> Every project managed by a dedicated servant-leader Six Sigma Kanban certified Scrum ninja-coach project has been a bureaucratic shitshow, with constant cargo culting to agile priniciples and forced ceremonies.

The engineer-led project sounds more agile than the latter Agile insanity.

red-iron-pine2y ago

> Agile done properly

No True Scotsmen would do programming this way!

psunavy032y ago

Ah, yes, the classic internet tactic of making up so-called "fallacies" to avoid engaging with the other person's actual arguments.

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