Agile has become overused and cliched.
My sister works as a project manager at one of the big UK banks. They are anything but agile--projects take months and have to be planned out to the smallest detail for legal and compliance reasons. Makes sense, as the smallest decision affects millions of people, and there are regulations to satisfy.
She complains she now has to do daily standups with other project managers. But she has no idea what they do, they have no idea what she does, and it's a matter of just talking "Yeah, doing the same thing I was doing yesterday".
But since there are like 20 managers in just her group, this takes an hour everyday.
And she's like--we're not in software, why are they forcing this scrum thing on us?
I tried to tell her about the Priesthood the Agile, the Saviours of Our Codes, bless them, the Agile Manifesto Priests, but decided it would be too much history, so I just nodded and said "meh".
My sister works as a project manager at one of the big UK banks. They are anything but agile--projects take months and have to be planned out to the smallest detail for legal and compliance reasons. Makes sense, as the smallest decision affects millions of people, and there are regulations to satisfy.
She complains she now has to do daily standups with other project managers. But she has no idea what they do, they have no idea what she does, and it's a matter of just talking "Yeah, doing the same thing I was doing yesterday".
But since there are like 20 managers in just her group, this takes an hour everyday.
And she's like--we're not in software, why are they forcing this scrum thing on us?
I tried to tell her about the Priesthood the Agile, the Saviours of Our Codes, bless them, the Agile Manifesto Priests, but decided it would be too much history, so I just nodded and said "meh".