Why do developers at Google consider Agile development to be nonsense? (2016)

Re:Why do developers at Google consider Agile development to... by amelius on Saturday August 03, 2019 @12:33PM (#20601234)

> From being warned I'd be terminated to a promotion in less than six months, with no change in my work, but simply it becoming visible. Whee big company fun.

They probably deduced from this that their warning system worked as expected.

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Re:Why do developers at Google consider Agile development to... by otaviokz on Saturday August 03, 2019 @12:41PM (#20601294)

I think the probability of you being right is definitely above 50%.

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Re:Why do developers at Google consider Agile development to... by replyguy912 on Saturday August 03, 2019 @01:30PM (#20601566)

I'd say it's somewhere between bottom 5% and top 10% ;)

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Re:Why do developers at Google consider Agile development to... by keanzu on Saturday August 03, 2019 @08:13PM (#20603603)

Regression to the mean tells you that if you reward success and yell at under performers the successful people will get worse and the under performers will get better. Lesson learned: All yelling, all the time.

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