Showing posts with label Agile blogs. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Agile blogs. Show all posts

Friday, February 14, 2014

Agile Horrors ...

See at Mike Griffiths site:
http://leadinganswers.typepad.com/leading_answers/2013/12/agile-horrors.html


"Frankenstein Process – This is the methodology designed by committee that tries to combine iterative, empowered development with linear scheduling and command-and-control task assignment."

 Waterfall strike back ... An "traditionalist" PM will always want a such kind of schedule, because it is part of the Waterfall mindset.

"Vampire Scrum Masters and Project Managers – These people just suck the life out of things and never give back. Scrum Masters who look for process compliance but do not own or remove impediments; or project managers who push for velocity improvements, but don’t want to hear about quality improvements or refactoring plans.

Process compliance & not removing impediments ... these kind of managers want an easy "safe & comfort zone" where they are fully protected: no real decision, just blindly following the rules - case when they think that will be always infallible. Right ...

Velocity ... it is in fact a Gold Rush where the only gold it is the fools gold. In fact it is just a cheap slyness. It will work for some period and then will start to fall.
In fact, these are very generic habits. The horror for Agile case is that here it are some fundamental rules such: remove the impediments and refactor (a particular case of removing the impediments).

Sunday, January 5, 2014

Agile: WHAT?

No ...

It is not a PM approach...but offer an approach also for PM concerns.
It is not an universal solution - silver bullet ...but it is a solution for many cases.
It is not a mindset...this is a mumbo-jumbo explanation, mostly when the right explanation is missing or when somebody make aggressive advertising. 
It is not easy... but the could offer also easy ways to manage some big problems.
It is not small... Agile related knowledge is not small, but is not centralized, "unified" and it is hard to understand that.
It is not Scrum...but Scrum it is Agile.

Yes...

It is a process approach... and demonstrated mostly for software development.
It is a cvasi-universal solution for adaptive problems...but there are some restrictions.
It is a response to Waterfall mindset... wrongly adopted by copy-paste to software development.
It is fragmented ... but you could start with the principles and the main methods.
It is easy to start and hard to master.