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[–] [email protected] 112 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (33 children)

Note that this is failure to deliver on time, not failure to deliver full stop.

I also think a lot of places claim to be agile, but don't follow or understand the principles at all. Another commenter here is the perfect example of that where they say the opposite of what's in the agile manifesto and claim that it's a representation of what it says.

Maybe that's a fundamental problem with agile. It's just a set of loose principles rather than a concrete methodology being pushed for by a company and it has therefore been bastardised by consulting companies and scrum masters claiming to teach the checklist of practices that will make your company agile. Such a checklist does not exist, it's just a set of ideas to keep in mind while you work out the detailed processes or lack thereof that work for you.

For anyone that wants to refresh their memory on the agile manifesto:

Individuals and interactions over processes and tools

Working software over comprehensive documentation

Customer collaboration over contract negotiation

Responding to change over following a plan

That is, while there is value in the items on the right, we value the items on the left more.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 6 months ago (20 children)

Agile was designed for contractors to deliver contract work. It’s a terrible design for any sort of sustainable business plan, hence “working software over comprehensive documentation”. That line right there causes the majority of outages you as a consumer encounter.

[–] [email protected] 37 points 6 months ago (2 children)

The very first mistake most people make when reading the agile manifesto is that "a over b" means "don't do b".

[–] peg 1 points 6 months ago

The other mistake everyone makes is "agile = faster and cheaper" . This results in corner cutting and unreasonable deadlines.

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