By: Erik
How about 9. You get more feedback. ??? Having a tighter feedback loop is IMO one of the main features of agile.
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Stephan, Thanks for this helpful summary for developers coming into agile. The agile community deserves pats on the back for making developers happier (by humane treatment) and enabling developers to...
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@Bob: Thanks for the insights. I also like what Steve Blanks says about discovery. Ans what I would call Trans-Scrum concering value.
View ArticleBy: Kevin
I enjoy the meetings of Scrum. Unlike other meetings, they are up to the point with the progress and issues and have specific outcomes that help in the progress of the project. Having a sprint actually...
View ArticleBy: Daniel Sobral
You can’t over-emphasize this: Agile is about working, high quality cost. Pretty much everything in Agile either is there to achieve that, or can only work if you have do achieve it. Which, by the way,...
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@Daniel: “[...] high quality cost?” :-) “Which, by the way, is why SCRUM without some good best practices on the technical side so often fails.” I agree.
View ArticleBy: Daniel Sobral
Wow, I’m aghast at how many typing errors there were! Let me redo it: You can’t over-emphasize this: Agile is about working, high quality code. Pretty much everything in Agile either is there to...
View ArticleBy: Robert Schultz
Agile Development has great marketing lines. Countless people go on and on about how agile is great for XYZ if you just enact policy A, B and C. However I’ve heard horror story after horror story from...
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@Robert: “However I’ve heard horror story after horror story from actual developers in companies that have tried to adopt Scrum or other Agile techniques and failed in a most spectacular way.” I was...
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@Robert: The biggest failures of Scrum happen when you do not get the buy in of upper managment. Then you get conflicts between different goals. Seen that in other companies.
View ArticleBy: Dave Moran
Stephan, Nice post! At our company, agile/scrum was introduced by developers. Those of us on the management side had to play catch-up, which we did. I’m a big fan of agile/scrum, and I just recently...
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Dave, liked your post, agree, especially with “The correct implementation of Agile/Scrum can be more of a challenge than you might realize at first.”
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@Jecc: Could you help me with the typos in the original post? After reading a post a dozen times it gets hard to find typos, and the spellchecker in WordPress completly destroys HTML tags, so I do no...
View ArticleBy: Robert Schultz
@stephan: When thinking about what I’ve heard from developer friends, you are right that most of the time it’s because upper management didn’t truly embrace it.
View ArticleBy: Mendelt Siebenga
The premise of this article : “Agile is mostly driven by managment and consultants, seldom bottom up by developers.” doesn’t fit with my experience at all. Most developers I know are trying to migrate...
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@Mendelt: I’m not sure I wrote the things you’ve read in the post. From the adoptions of Scrum I experienced, these were driven by middle managment, not by developers. There might be individual...
View ArticleBy: PM Hut
Here’s another thing that developers need to know about Agile, it’s designed with a “team of outstanding developers in mind”. E.g. everyone on the team has to be a very bright developer, slackers are...
View ArticleBy: Stefan Schubert
I clearly love agile. Agile belongs to a set of modern company organization tools that has something to do … yeah with brightness. I have seen people grow because of agile, who were not so present...
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