Re:The age of cargo cult Agile must end
by lmm on Wednesday February 22, 2023 @12:53AM
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> waterfall is a strawman. any pre-agile organization that signed off on a two-year plan and showed up two years later saying 'where's my thing?' is just as much of an idiot as they would be today.
It's not a strawman. Those organisations are very real.
> yes, making plans that you indend to continuously adapt to the situation at hand doesn't conflict with agile. but that still leaves one wondering what agile really brought to the table. time boxing everything at a fixed 2 week interval?
Agile emphasises that you need to deliver something working to the customer, every 2 weeks. Without that it's very easy to call something code-complete or tested but not released or whatever, and you get further and further behind where you think you are because none of the stuff you thought you'd finished actually works.
It's not a strawman. Those organisations are very real.
> yes, making plans that you indend to continuously adapt to the situation at hand doesn't conflict with agile. but that still leaves one wondering what agile really brought to the table. time boxing everything at a fixed 2 week interval?
Agile emphasises that you need to deliver something working to the customer, every 2 weeks. Without that it's very easy to call something code-complete or tested but not released or whatever, and you get further and further behind where you think you are because none of the stuff you thought you'd finished actually works.