Even with Agile and Scrum waterfall will sneak in

Re:Even with Agile and Scrum waterfall will sneak in by boffinAudio on Monday December 06, 2021 @06:42AM (#29458539)

I've worked on all kinds of projects, and every single time the project failed, the tooling and methodology were blamed, not the individuals. This is the #1 cause of failed software projects - the inability for individuals to take responsibility for parts of the workflow, for which they are incompetent, and not subsequently working on improving that competence at an individual level.

But true, breaking larger problems down into smaller units (Agile/Scrum) is an effective way for a "manager" to help their developers - but I argue this is non-optimal for sociological reasons, not technical: Adherence to a cargo-cult is a function of laziness, not competence.

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Re:Even with Agile and Scrum waterfall will sneak in by AnimalMuppet on Monday December 06, 2021 @12:03PM (#29462344)

So when waterfall doesn't work, it's the fault of the developers, who are doing it badly? Well, I've seen agile work, too, with really good developers. And plenty of people have seen both fail, if you don't have good enough developers. Hmm, maybe it's not the methodology?

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