Re:Manifesto for Half-Arsed Agile Software Development
by wpietri on Wednesday January 15, 2014 @02:25PM
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As far as I can tell, nobody who has actually taken their process seriously says they are "doing Agile". When you ask them what they do, they give a pretty specific answer. E.g., "Well, we started out with Scrum, but added a number of the XP technical practices and are experimenting with getting rid of iterations for a flow-based approach." Literally every time I have asked follow-up questions of somebody "doing Agile" it has been some variety of horseshit with Agile words thrown in to make it sound trendy.
As an aside, I don't know any serious Agile person who thinks that doing 100% anything by the book is a good idea. I think it was Ron Jeffries, one of XP's inventors, who said something like : "By the book XP is a good place to start, but it probably isn't where you'll end up." Agile processes all have an inspect-and-adapt component. E.g., the weekly retrospectives and continuous tinkering of XP.
As an aside, I don't know any serious Agile person who thinks that doing 100% anything by the book is a good idea. I think it was Ron Jeffries, one of XP's inventors, who said something like : "By the book XP is a good place to start, but it probably isn't where you'll end up." Agile processes all have an inspect-and-adapt component. E.g., the weekly retrospectives and continuous tinkering of XP.