Re:Agile Is Dead, McKinsey Just Killed It
by dragonwriter on Wednesday September 22, 2021 @10:39PM
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> structured agile
If it is following a structure specified outside the working organization, it is not Agile, but instead the exact thing that Agile was explicitly a reaction against.
> Mostly because every single sprint becomes so derailed by "urgent" outside requirements that any sort of cohesion and planning goes out the window.
An approach that puts following a plan over responding to change is...not Agile.
> Then you have clients who won't pay for the planning and retrospective time.
Why does your contract not define what is a billable hour and charge an appropriate rate for the time?
> I think my record is 4 consecutive Sprints before things went completely off process.
If you aren't adapting your process continuously (or, rather evaluating it continuously and adapting as needed), you are giving process a priority over the concrete team (in the broad sense, including the customer) and set of challenges faced that is exactly what the first value statement in the Agile Manifesto is about not doing.
If it is following a structure specified outside the working organization, it is not Agile, but instead the exact thing that Agile was explicitly a reaction against.
> Mostly because every single sprint becomes so derailed by "urgent" outside requirements that any sort of cohesion and planning goes out the window.
An approach that puts following a plan over responding to change is...not Agile.
> Then you have clients who won't pay for the planning and retrospective time.
Why does your contract not define what is a billable hour and charge an appropriate rate for the time?
> I think my record is 4 consecutive Sprints before things went completely off process.
If you aren't adapting your process continuously (or, rather evaluating it continuously and adapting as needed), you are giving process a priority over the concrete team (in the broad sense, including the customer) and set of challenges faced that is exactly what the first value statement in the Agile Manifesto is about not doing.