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Re:From inboxing to thought showers: how business bullshit t... by amorphid on Thursday December 28, 2017 @11:10AM (#16022833)
Agile doesn't directly help you make money, save money, or save time. I think of it as a way to reveal what people are working on, including myself. If I'm working in the corner on who knows what, and as a leader you wanna know WHAT I'm working on, Agile can help with that. Agile may get me to communicate that I'm working on something awesome or something horrific, and what you do with that information is up to you.
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Re:From inboxing to thought showers: how business bullshit t... by fnordsensei on Sunday December 31, 2017 @05:29AM (#16040062)
If it's more efficient than some alternative, then it IS saving me money and time. Having NOTHING in place is clearly not an alternative. We must always have something. Therefore, whether it's saving money or time is relative as to the alternatives, or relative to whatever processes we had before the introduction of agile.

What did you have in mind that you consider to be more efficient than agile?

(Btw, I noticed you snuck the word "directly" in there, as in "agile doesn't directly help you make money…". This makes the rule of thumb nearly useless as the only people who directly make money is sales. Very nearly everything else that goes on in an organisation is in indirect support of them, one way or another.)

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