IMO it's all about working with smart, motivated people who can work independently without the raging ego to cross borders to expand their computational Lebensraum. I've run remote projects with old friends over 3-5 years and it's gone spectacularly well.
In contrast, I've been on SCRUMed and Agiled projects where the resulting overhead on those who can already get work done without SCRUM Master Jar Jar's constant interruptions reduces them to people who quit within a few months.
But hey, acqui-hires rock and I can't imagine a better way to drive the talent out of a stable Fortune 500 company in order to take a chance at a startup than by driving them $%!@ing crazy and reducing their productivity to jack diddly. Ah the cycle of life...
That said, I see the use of methodologies where the talent is both junior and mediocre. But the former is better addressed with good mentoring (ha ha just joking - mentoring is for wimps, am I right? am I right?) and the latter by not hiring the mediocre in the first place (which means HR needs to be disrupted stat and since they hold all the cards they won't be - cycle of life again).
In contrast, I've been on SCRUMed and Agiled projects where the resulting overhead on those who can already get work done without SCRUM Master Jar Jar's constant interruptions reduces them to people who quit within a few months.
But hey, acqui-hires rock and I can't imagine a better way to drive the talent out of a stable Fortune 500 company in order to take a chance at a startup than by driving them $%!@ing crazy and reducing their productivity to jack diddly. Ah the cycle of life...
That said, I see the use of methodologies where the talent is both junior and mediocre. But the former is better addressed with good mentoring (ha ha just joking - mentoring is for wimps, am I right? am I right?) and the latter by not hiring the mediocre in the first place (which means HR needs to be disrupted stat and since they hold all the cards they won't be - cycle of life again).