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Re:Manifesto for Half-Arsed Agile Software Development by badman_ting on Wednesday January 15, 2014 @12:22PM (#7064575)
I dunno, sometimes going back to waterfall sounds kind of nice. I'm tired of the lack of direction, the attention-deficit school of project management where every 3 months there is some new starry-eyed vision we all chase after. I know this means my company is "doing agile wrong" and all that shit, I just would rather be on a slow train wreck than a fast one.
Re:Manifesto for Half-Arsed Agile Software Development by UK-AL on Wednesday January 15, 2014 @01:01PM (#7064861)
The problem is that business conditions do change that fast.

However for a lot of small companies it is better than what they had before, regarding consistent direction. Lots of startups change scope or features daily and are in a constant state of panic.

Having a fixed two/one week sprint provides same restspite for developers. But still allowing feature and priorities to be changed after each sprint.

Re:Manifesto for Half-Arsed Agile Software Development by badman_ting on Wednesday January 15, 2014 @01:31PM (#7065115)
That's what I thought for a while too, but most everything I have made in the last 2-3 years got shoved in a ditch. We're not responding to the market, we're just flailing around trying different dumb stuff.
Re:Manifesto for Half-Arsed Agile Software Development by willismichael on Wednesday January 15, 2014 @12:57PM (#7064829)
If it's going to be a train wreck either way, I'm not sure which I would prefer. Maybe jump and find another train?
Re:Manifesto for Half-Arsed Agile Software Development by StudyAnimal on Wednesday January 15, 2014 @01:18PM (#7065004)
I bet you hate startups then, and all their pivoting!
Re:Manifesto for Half-Arsed Agile Software Development by badman_ting on Wednesday January 15, 2014 @01:29PM (#7065097)
Sure. I don't think I would ever work at one, although not for this reason.