Re:Even with Agile and Scrum waterfall will sneak in
by corpMaverick on Monday December 06, 2021 @03:57PM
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> You need to know what will be delivered, when.
It is valuable to have engineers who know how to decouple individual pieces to eliminate (reduce) these dependencies. These dependencies are almost guaranteed points of conflict and risk for the project.
Re:Even with Agile and Scrum waterfall will sneak in
by ChrisMarshallNY on Monday December 06, 2021 @04:03PM
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Tell that to a hardware manufacturer that is developing a camera, with firmware, three different processors, drivers, APIs, SDKs, host software, lenses, speedlights, marketing materials, packaging, distribution, documentation, etc., while coordinating manufacturing lines in three different countries, and engineering efforts in two.
It can get ... intense.
Waterfall is almost required, when you are crossing the streams. Merging separate workflows is a fraught process. You need to know what will be delivered, when. I spent most of my career, working for hardware companies, and saw this every day.
Truly agile processes don't really lend themselves to that; which is actually kind of the point.
But the real deal, is that high-level managers and non-tecchies can't deal with Agile.
Managers have a lot of power. If we don't help them to understand the process, they will make decisions, based on what they know.