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Re:The age of cargo cult Agile must end by dilyevsky on Tuesday February 21, 2023 @10:05PM (#34891118)
+1 the problem is the management’s desire for modern day taylorism. Once that line of thinking sets in it really doesn’t matter which process you pick it’s still going to suck
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Re:The age of cargo cult Agile must end by tharkun__ on Tuesday February 21, 2023 @11:03PM (#34891486)
And it works so well with metrics!

S.M.A.R.T, right?

Wrong!

Goodhardt's law. Once you put any sort of pressure on the metric, it collapses. Deliver X story points per sprint?

WTF? That is not the spirit of agile. That is Big Corp subverting what agile was trying to subvert from big Corp Man Days in the first place.

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