The first realization should be that Agile is not a silver bullet and is not needed to build great software. Great software was built before Agile existed.
People who care passionately about technology and software build great software.
On recent Agile projects I have been involved in, a lot of Agile 'artifacts' were produced (mostly walls covered in Post-it notes). Software seemed to by a by-product and didn't really feature much.
I think this is a result of the 'busywork' Agile created.
This is something I hadn't considered. Thinking back on it, the teams I've been on that did agile had 3 or 4 times the number of managers that non-agile teams did. You needed more people to enforce the process, wrangle the engineers, plan the meetings and make sure that wall of post-it notes was updated. Something I frequently heard was that programmers were paid too much to waste their time playing arts and crafts.
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The first realization should be that Agile is not a silver bullet and is not needed to build great software. Great software was built before Agile existed.
People who care passionately about technology and software build great software.
On recent Agile projects I have been involved in, a lot of Agile 'artifacts' were produced (mostly walls covered in Post-it notes). Software seemed to by a by-product and didn't really feature much.
I think this is a result of the 'busywork' Agile created.
This is something I hadn't considered. Thinking back on it, the teams I've been on that did agile had 3 or 4 times the number of managers that non-agile teams did. You needed more people to enforce the process, wrangle the engineers, plan the meetings and make sure that wall of post-it notes was updated. Something I frequently heard was that programmers were paid too much to waste their time playing arts and crafts.