Re:Agile's early evangelists wouldn't mind watching Agile die
by ebiester on Friday April 24, 2020 @04:35PM
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The advice they are giving is to stop trusting methods, take the best practices that make sense, and trust your engineers to build a bespoke process from those building blocks.
> “I don't care if it’s Lean or Agile, there’s no silver bullet where if you just follow this formula that somebody else followed, you’re going to be great,” she said. “So today, my favorite word is ‘engineering.’ Just let engineers be engineers.”
Maybe we need to call it the Lego process. SCRUM is Duplo. Waterfall is worse Duplo. Start there if you need, but get to Lego instead. Maybe Duplo is enough for you.
Re:Agile's early evangelists wouldn't mind watching Agile die
by ulisesrmzroche on Friday April 24, 2020 @03:10PM
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You don't need to provide a viable alternative when you criticize something, this is a false dilemma.
Re:Agile's early evangelists wouldn't mind watching Agile die
by Someone1234 on Friday April 24, 2020 @04:02PM
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Nobody you replied to said they shouldn't be allowed to criticize Agile.
The criticism in this comment thread was that their advice wasn't actionable, not that actionability was a prerequisite in order to criticize Agile at all. There was no false dilemma here because there was no choices provided (false or otherwise), merely a weakness in an argument raised.
The only "strawman" here seems to be taking my point about pre-Agile methodologies out of context, and using it to dismiss the entire idea that this article is unconstructive/has no actionable solutions.