Agile has always been sold as "Once upon a time there was Waterfall, and everything sucked, then we invented Agile, and now everything is amazing"<p>But now that Agile has been around for awhile, and some companies are reverting to a more waterfall-style, will Agile have the same sway?
> But if every time I said I was giving you a "gift" I actually punched you in the mouth you'd soon learn the revised meaning of "gift". ...<p>> <i>The most important thing a developer can do isn't code.</i> It's act as an analyst of what's possible and how to deliver it. This is a call for more meetings. Not useless standups but meetings with end-users to hear feedback. (emphasis mine)<p>Instead, standups are converted to PM wannabees pretending to be scrum masters who are offended when an old project's main branch is called master but do not know anything at all about the thing they are managing.
Great article, completely agree.<p>> Businesses seem to have a mortal fear of a horde of shabby developers who can't make eye contact invading their inner sanctum.<p>That’s maybe half the truth. A lot of developers see their job as only head-down coding and tinkering with new things. They object to meetings of any kind, or any interruption. They don’t want to engage with management, marketing, customers, users. Management excludes the developers, the developers exclude themselves, in a self-reinforcing cycle of alienation and resentment.