Re:Scrum is fragile, not Agile
by goatinaboat on Monday May 27, 2019 @04:26AM
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it's really a victim of the developers who sold it as a magical process
Developers may advocate small-a agile, but I have never heard of an actual developer pushing for Scrum, SAFe, or any of the name-brand "agile" methodologies, that come with expensive consultants and certifications and "coaches" and conferences and a whole ecosystem around them. These are things for project managers for the benefit of project managers who see project management the main deliverable l in and of itself. The same with JIRA actually, it's not a software development tool, it's a project management tool, sold to the same people who previously bought MS Project. These things are all overheads in the software development process, not enablers, as another poster says, the goal of most organisations is not to be effective at their stated mission, but to maintain their internal power structures.
Developers may advocate small-a agile, but I have never heard of an actual developer pushing for Scrum, SAFe, or any of the name-brand "agile" methodologies, that come with expensive consultants and certifications and "coaches" and conferences and a whole ecosystem around them. These are things for project managers for the benefit of project managers who see project management the main deliverable l in and of itself. The same with JIRA actually, it's not a software development tool, it's a project management tool, sold to the same people who previously bought MS Project. These things are all overheads in the software development process, not enablers, as another poster says, the goal of most organisations is not to be effective at their stated mission, but to maintain their internal power structures.