I agree with you that any kind of process sucks when a team doesn't really know what they are doing.
And by using a methodology you are saying just that "we have no fucking clue, so we will try it this way that person X sol us".
I have debated agile proponents about whether agile would work in their respective organizations on multiple occasions. Usually I argue it would fail just as much as any other approach?
Why? Because people try to adhere to it strictly and completely miss or ignore their current context, which is usually THE problem they are trying to solve in the first place.
And you are dead wrong about waterfall. Waterfall is not even a methodology. Anyone selling himself as an "methodology expert" while trying to sell you on "waterfall methodology" is a quack and a fraud. Anyone talking about waterfall as a possible methodology is a quack and a fraud who knows nothing about methodologies. Because waterfall is not a methodology, just like adding rat poison to kids candy is not a business model. Waterfall has always, since the very beginning of the term, been an anti pattern a "anti-methodology".
And by using a methodology you are saying just that "we have no fucking clue, so we will try it this way that person X sol us".
I have debated agile proponents about whether agile would work in their respective organizations on multiple occasions. Usually I argue it would fail just as much as any other approach?
Why? Because people try to adhere to it strictly and completely miss or ignore their current context, which is usually THE problem they are trying to solve in the first place.
And you are dead wrong about waterfall. Waterfall is not even a methodology. Anyone selling himself as an "methodology expert" while trying to sell you on "waterfall methodology" is a quack and a fraud. Anyone talking about waterfall as a possible methodology is a quack and a fraud who knows nothing about methodologies. Because waterfall is not a methodology, just like adding rat poison to kids candy is not a business model. Waterfall has always, since the very beginning of the term, been an anti pattern a "anti-methodology".