I hate all of the people that think "agile" means "do everything at the same time, with no cost". Or, other fuckwits, think that "agile" means "fuck plans, dev team will figure something out".

Both of these types apparently did not read any publication about the subject.

Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa!

Sometimes it just eems like putting the lipstick on a pig.

I worked for an 'agile' team that had 3 hours long meetings per day at average with no clear agenda. After some time, I excused myself from all meetings where I was not essential and reduced that shit to 3 hours of meetings a week!

Heh, usually I've seen it used as "we can change or add any requirements underneath you as we see fit, but we still expect you to hit a hard deadline because agile"

"Do everything at the same time with no cost and fuck plans"

Also: Fuck standards, security and quality.

This was definitely the case in myb previous company. They said we have to be agile because waterfall bad.
Unfortunately this did not mean sprints and structure. It meant just do whatever pops up and screams the loudest across all projects simultaneously. Also agile means everything can change at a moment's notice. You done with your architecture, great now we want something completely unrelated note supported by it... Than the complaints about fictional deadlines come in.

Glad I'm done with that bullshit.

@FuckingPhallus proper feedback loop, also scope changes should stop the sprint to re-estimate task then start the sprint again, not pause the sprint but HARD stop.

Don't like the HARD stop, well, than that is something called change request and we can talk about that on the end of the sprint so we can plan it for the next, but groom the questionable task first on grooming meeting so this shit doesn't change scope again later.

Agile processes have sense when used how they should be used. Reading book in 2 days and saying you have agile methodology implemented in your company is plain BS you want to sell to your customers.

To successfully implement agile you have to educate your employees first and explain reasoning behind the process, event, ceremony etc. and when they should be used or not.

Many fail to implement it right and so we have agile companies who are actually extreme or emextre, but more often just pure chaos!

@hjk101 omfg, what a shit show!

agile or waterflow is nothing about devs it is for managers to manage projects and delivery. Waterflow means say everything what you want to get so devs can put proper structure in the place. Agile is you can keep changing what you want devs will keep refactoring or adjusting based on it. I love hearing from management that we need to try to be more agile in the business. What it even means? Change minds more often? 🤔