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Agile was created for assembly line work, not big development projects. Hence it does not concern itself with overall plan and architecture, only with the day to day, week to week, work of implementing it. Understanding this, agile works fine. But zealots without practical experience want everything to fit the agile religion. And so you get the confusion about how to plan an architecture, how to develop overall system requirements, when everything must be incremental and in sprints. We had pretty good solutions to many of those things twenty years ago, but that is "waterfall" now, the tarnish used to denigrate everything agile acolytes don't understand. Agile is a product now, sold by ignorant business consultants. I've never seen a more ridiculous mess than watching a non-software organization trying to transition to 'agile' in the whole organization. Sales, marketing, business process management, doing sprints, with scrums and epics and story point estimation, etc. Yes, that is what the agile industry is selling now, agile for the whole organization, in any industry. The horrors this will produce we have yet to fully enjoy. |
This reminds me: I saw SAFe everywhere a few years ago and now I don't see it in the wild as often. It seemed kind of snake-oily to me. Does anybody have any idea what happened when I wasn't looking?