Re:Agile Is Dead, McKinsey Just Killed It
by Jtsummers on Wednesday September 22, 2021 @09:45AM
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I’ve said it before, and I’ll probably say it again, it’s not a fiction. I’ve watched millions of dollars get wasted by that approach. It’s a great way to deliver nothing on time unless you know the domain well and your customer really knows what they want. But it is, sadly, quite real.
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Re:Agile Is Dead, McKinsey Just Killed It
by gilbetron on Wednesday September 22, 2021 @11:10AM
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Oh it's real, I agree. What I meant by "fiction" is that the success of waterfall, and the specifics of how waterfall are implemented, is fictional. As in during the "delivery phase", it is found that requirements were missed and so people will retroactively act as if those requirements were actually in the "requirements phase" all along. I did a lot of government contract work and saw the insanity in action.
Lots of retroactive changing of gantt charts, too :)