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0 pointsnecovek4y ago0 comments

> This was the other thing. We fell into the hands of Agile cultists (really no other way to portray them) and wound up getting buried in process, useless meetings, etc.

That's curious since "agile", as the name suggests, should be very lean on the process. There is nothing agile about a lot of process details!

Sure, people get too invested and miss the boat, but in general it's not too hard to remind them what "agile" is about (hey, it's in the name!), and in my experience, they usually relent.

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g0510514y ago

You've been lucky. I've seen first hand, heard from my peers in other companies, and read throughout the industry, that Agile is probably the most poorly named thing out there. Just because they put it in the name, doesn't make it a lean, lightweight, easy to use process. So in my experience, "Agile" is not in the least bit agile.

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0 pointsnecovek4y ago0 comments

> This was the other thing. We fell into the hands of Agile cultists (really no other way to portray them) and wound up getting buried in process, useless meetings, etc.

That's curious since "agile", as the name suggests, should be very lean on the process. There is nothing agile about a lot of process details!

Sure, people get too invested and miss the boat, but in general it's not too hard to remind them what "agile" is about (hey, it's in the name!), and in my experience, they usually relent.

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