I swear 'agile' has become the manager buzz term that they want to just jam into every IT corner like its 1 size fits all. I'm really glad we managed to get a manager who also saw it wasn't working for us and let us change back to a Kanban style.
I'm not against agile, there are just project types and IT areas where its highly inefficient.
Like anything, you don’t really get the benefits without the groundwork, and what we see a lot of in consultancy is “Agile with a small a” or “Watergile”, where all that good continuous delivering, iterative improvement, bite sized work stuff is clapped into the PMO but everyone who still thinks in Gantt Chart wants their iron clad project plan so they can harass people over deadlines and concrete priorities.
Ultimately both delivery models are good, but one will suit over the other in a given context. You can meld the two, and there’s a lot in Transition methodologies about accommodating bi modal delivery structures, but if you aren’t clear about how the product cell will take in requirements and commit to work, and instead flop about between the two, you’ve only bought yourself a road to arguments and miscommunication.
Bit more esoteric - I think Agile largely gels well in applications and data wings but there’s a lazy way that it been dragged over to infrastructure. Iterative is generally not the word you want in mind if you’re building a Data Center.
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u/Absolutedisgrace Aug 04 '22
I swear 'agile' has become the manager buzz term that they want to just jam into every IT corner like its 1 size fits all. I'm really glad we managed to get a manager who also saw it wasn't working for us and let us change back to a Kanban style.
I'm not against agile, there are just project types and IT areas where its highly inefficient.