Having worked at Google, I can say that there are definitely large chunks of the company that do not do agile. Currently working at Spotify, I can say that while the company definitely does agile, most of the teams AFAIK don't do Scrum. There's a publicly available Spotify Culture video that explains this and other things.
I'll happily help debunk a teensy bit more - I just left Spotify where I was an Agile Coach for 3 years. At least by the time I left, there weren't any teams in the company really "using scrum", some teams may have kept some pieces that worked well for them (regular development intervals for instance) but I don't think any of them were falling into the traps or anti-patterns mentioned here. There are 80-something product development teams, each one gets to choose and evolve the practices best suited for them, etc.
the Agile methodology allegedly favored by Google and Spotify
That's why I put that "allegedly" in there, along with links to where the claims were made.
I see these claims in the business press from time to time, but I rarely believe them.
BS reporting is a catch-22. Since I repeated the claims, I get well-informed debunking. If I'd ignored the claims, I'd be getting poorly-informed debunking from people who saw it and believed it.
I'm pretty happy to get well-informed debunking, rather than poorly-informed debunking.
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Having worked at Google, I can say that there are definitely large chunks of the company that do not do agile. Currently working at Spotify, I can say that while the company definitely does agile, most of the teams AFAIK don't do Scrum. There's a publicly available Spotify Culture video that explains this and other things.
I'll happily help debunk a teensy bit more - I just left Spotify where I was an Agile Coach for 3 years. At least by the time I left, there weren't any teams in the company really "using scrum", some teams may have kept some pieces that worked well for them (regular development intervals for instance) but I don't think any of them were falling into the traps or anti-patterns mentioned here. There are 80-something product development teams, each one gets to choose and evolve the practices best suited for them, etc.
To quote my actual post:
That's why I put that "allegedly" in there, along with links to where the claims were made.
I see these claims in the business press from time to time, but I rarely believe them.
BS reporting is a catch-22. Since I repeated the claims, I get well-informed debunking. If I'd ignored the claims, I'd be getting poorly-informed debunking from people who saw it and believed it.
I'm pretty happy to get well-informed debunking, rather than poorly-informed debunking.