Re:How big tech runs tech projects and the curious absence o...
by dragonwriter on Monday September 27, 2021 @12:31PM
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> If you have a set date and a set scope you can't be agile. Agile needs to be ale to radically change scope or even cancel projects outright.
The thing I think that fails to be recognized about Agile (though there is a lot adjacent to it, without outright calling it out, in the central documents) too often is that Agile has fundamental tension with the project-oriented, and even to a lesser extend product-orient d, mindset, and really calls for a mindset in which technology is an integral component of continuous end-to-end business process improvement. It can be adapted to product- or project-oriented environments, but only with compromise.
> The flexibility of scrum is being able to say what is done represents a working though not fully featured product.
The flexibility of Agile in general comes in rejecting products as a goal to themselves, and recognizing that technology is part of a broader system of delivering value and any improvement in value delivery is worthwhile according to the value delivered compared to the cost of delivering it.
The thing I think that fails to be recognized about Agile (though there is a lot adjacent to it, without outright calling it out, in the central documents) too often is that Agile has fundamental tension with the project-oriented, and even to a lesser extend product-orient d, mindset, and really calls for a mindset in which technology is an integral component of continuous end-to-end business process improvement. It can be adapted to product- or project-oriented environments, but only with compromise.
> The flexibility of scrum is being able to say what is done represents a working though not fully featured product.
The flexibility of Agile in general comes in rejecting products as a goal to themselves, and recognizing that technology is part of a broader system of delivering value and any improvement in value delivery is worthwhile according to the value delivered compared to the cost of delivering it.