I like how you quoted all the text except the part where I said “I’m sure agile done right is great”. (And that most organisations don’t do agile right).
But in the name of agile, business tends to get away with a lot of bad decisions, at least in the places I’ve worked.
Is it all as bad as it sounds? No, but the times I’ve heard we’re not thinking about design upfront under the name of agile is staggering.
Also what I dislike about the agile way of working is that whenever somebody presents any argument against it, people always say “that’s not agile”. Great. But if it is how people DO agile, that argument is moot.
It’s like REST. Rest is great. But nobody (almost nobody) actually does Rest like described in the original whitepaper. We can’t just ignore the issues resulting from this discrepancy.
Which is funny because agile allows for almost anything. Even the Scrum Guide says that the process must be adjusted to the needs of the project. It's not even an option. Yet scrum meetings are treated as if they were religious gatherings.
But in the name of agile, business tends to get away with a lot of bad decisions, at least in the places I’ve worked.
Is it all as bad as it sounds? No, but the times I’ve heard we’re not thinking about design upfront under the name of agile is staggering.
Also what I dislike about the agile way of working is that whenever somebody presents any argument against it, people always say “that’s not agile”. Great. But if it is how people DO agile, that argument is moot.
It’s like REST. Rest is great. But nobody (almost nobody) actually does Rest like described in the original whitepaper. We can’t just ignore the issues resulting from this discrepancy.