> Maybe--just maybe--it's a shit ideology that is totally unworkable.
Could be. Much like communism, it's something that seems to work remarkably well for small groups of people but seems to have problems with large, entrenched groups.
There are enough agile success stories though that I don't think the ideology is completely silly.
> I think my current place is on their, what, 8th "reset" now? Where they try to correct their process because it's "not working."
It's highly unlikely that any methodology would have any effect on your current place, regardless of how brilliant or revolutionary it is.
I think it's tempting to dismiss Agile as stupid or unworkable because it's failed to produce any results at organizations like this (and often just made things worse).
The truth is really that your organization is highly dysfunctional and the problem is management. There's no development methodology that will fix that, and indeed it won't get better until those people see the light of day (unlikely) or leave/are replaced.
For more functional organizations, or even organizations where management is willing to admit they might be wrong, Agile can be a nice set of guiding principles for development work that makes life easier.
> There are enough agile success stories though that I don't think the ideology is completely silly.
Any lonk to read one account of such written by devs themselves, as opposed to the vast majority that are written by consultants selling agile packages?
Could be. Much like communism, it's something that seems to work remarkably well for small groups of people but seems to have problems with large, entrenched groups.
There are enough agile success stories though that I don't think the ideology is completely silly.
> I think my current place is on their, what, 8th "reset" now? Where they try to correct their process because it's "not working."
It's highly unlikely that any methodology would have any effect on your current place, regardless of how brilliant or revolutionary it is.
I think it's tempting to dismiss Agile as stupid or unworkable because it's failed to produce any results at organizations like this (and often just made things worse).
The truth is really that your organization is highly dysfunctional and the problem is management. There's no development methodology that will fix that, and indeed it won't get better until those people see the light of day (unlikely) or leave/are replaced.
For more functional organizations, or even organizations where management is willing to admit they might be wrong, Agile can be a nice set of guiding principles for development work that makes life easier.