Re:The art of interrupting software engineers
by mikekchar on Tuesday July 30, 2019 @07:30AM
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Well, I won't disagree. I've had the moniker "Agile Coach" before it was ever a thing (I though I'd invented the term :-) ). But I have never been a business consultant. My "coaching" was exactly what you would expect from a sports coach: I helped the players, not the management :-).
XP (in its traditional sense) doesn't scale past 8 developers anyway. Anybody selling you XP for a team of 500 is someone to be wary of ;-)
The problem though is the Agile Industrial Complex and "thought leaders" who have pushed this as a religion on the industry. I enjoy pairing, and the excitement of two minds working at the same problem in tandem is an experience to be relished. But give it to an Agile snake-oil salesman, most of whom gravitated away from programming a long time ago in favor of making money training others in how to program, and they'll wield it as a weapon by prescribing the only true way to work.