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The irony being that agile was meant to be a rejection of blindly following a ONE TRUE WAY. A major point was to periodically review your processes and adapt them to better suit your situation. The idea being you don't get locked in to a process that's no longer working and even have some freedom to experiment.

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Exactly. Depending on the team, I usually try to start off using something mostly by the book and we adjust from there. Some teams need more structure and some suffocate under it.

A business has to understand that the processes that are best for software delivery are orthogonal to the ones that are best for business.

Namely, (good/agile) software development demands fluctuation and iteration where business plans seem to thrive on long-term forecasts and projections. Waterfall would absolutely be the best things for businesses... if it worked.

But I'm telling you people!, the earth revolves around the sun. ---Burn him!!!!

We're currently swallowing the Scaled Agile Framework pill and I honestly think that it's cause maybe 3 serious episode of depression and burnout in 7 person team.

We failed a sprint a while back. No one knew you could do that until we did.

So at least we're learning.

SAFe is actually fine if you choose an appropriate level and follow the practices. It's ridiculous how people read that SAFe is "tailorable" and then promptly do something that is in no way Safe.

Every single day i tell my coworkers to RTFM

SAFe is probably the worst offender of what the article is focused on.

I can’t think of a more anti-agile statement than ‘RTFM’. A more productive statement might be ‘Update The Fucking Manual’.

Yeah but management consultants can't sell that as easily as they can sell a pre packaged "agile" solution like they do with SCRUM. Fundamentally, agile requires processes that are at odds with traditional management, so companies that sell buzzwords to traditional management aren't going to push anything that requires real behavioral change from the senior team.

Agile is the ONE TRUE WAY to not follow a ONE TRUE WAY.

Only the Messiah would say he's not the Messiah!

> The irony being that agile was meant to be a rejection of blindly following a ONE TRUE WAY.

The same holds true for all religions. However many believers nowadays defend it as there was only one true way.

That's not quite true, the 3 major monotheist religions of the world insist that they are the only true one, and if you don't believe that very bad things will happen to you.

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