On 10/25/2017 10:49 AM, [email protected] wrote:
On 2017-10-25 10:34, Stephen Russell wrote:
Ted, do you desire Agile/Scrum based projects or do you like the
waterfall
you laid out in the email?
Does ANYBODY do waterfall yet? In this day and age, I figured agile
rules the day.
From what I've seen, most companies that say they are doing Agile are
actually not doing Agile. In some extremely bad cases I've seen clear
Waterfall mentality exhibited "shamelessly" on projects that were trying
to use typical Agile approaches (SCRUM, iterations, etc). The results
were terrible. They even set up teams that absolutely do not meet the
minimum standards of Agile. And that is a very sad thing: people that do
not understand software development end up walking away with the wrong
impression of what Agile can do.
But Agile is not a silver bullet. If everyone, especially the "funding
source", does not understand what Agile really is, and what everyone's
responsibility and authority are, you will almost certainly end up with
at horrible mess. And if its a "gig for hire" (contract) it can turn
into a legal mess. And there are circumstances where Agile absolutely
should not be used (strict schedule needs due to integration,
requirement sets that cannot be reduced, etc).
It's funny how vendors, corporations, and consultants will not admit
they'll do Waterfall. They will label it RUP (Rational Unified Process),
or SAFE (can't remember what that expands to - they try to brand it as a
form of Agile, but it's definitely not). So Agile has suffered a lot
from the usual software industry buzzword-worship. Some companies may
actually not want to use it based on their experience.
-Charlie
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