Doing Agile Wrong

Fri, 26 Sep 2014 12:39:00 -0400

While I’m often at odds with software frameworks (libraries are to be preferred over frameworks, generally), I’ve found that process frameworks can be very good indeed, when done right. Implementors of agile methodologies ironically can fall into the trap of doing it wrong.

Why ironic? Well let’s look at the agile manifesto from the agile manifesto website:

Individuals and interactions over processes and tools

Working software over comprehensive documentation

Customer collaboration over contract negotiation

Responding to change over following a plan

What I’ve heard is that in many companies they prescribe: “We do agile this way”, which breaks the first statement of agile. On the other hand, when agile is done right, if you have many teams, you should have many variants of agile processes. If you are going to prescribe something, it’s best to prescribe the framework, i.e. the manifesto, rather than it’s particular implementation.

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Doing Agile Wrong