> Old people: Agile has the smell of death on it. If you go to an “agile” event you will see few people under the age of 40 and many over 50.
This has the smell of ad-hominem on it. How about a little evaluation of the ideas?
> Most organizations which use the word "agile" are using the word precisely because they are NOT agile, and want to be more agile.
Again, this is basically just saying, "It can't be cool because the cool kids aren't in on it." How about an evaluation of the ideas, not the marketing?
> I don’t think values have anything to do with productivity or collaboration. The Americans and the Russians didn’t share many values, but they teamed up into a mighty fighting force during WWII because they shared a goal.
I abhor this attitude. You meet people who are all about "making use of you" at "startup weekend" type events. Values aren't so necessary for productivity in general, but shared values are necessary for productivity in areas where quality and attention to detail are paramount.
> If you are a vendor selling “pairs”, you have an awesome situation where you can charge twice as much, and you can easily churn guys on and off the pairs, one at a time
So you are evaluating a practice by the scummiest abuse of the practice? I think this reveals something, but not so much about the practice.
I'd say the fact that orginizations using the work 'agile' not actually being agile goes hand in hand with old people at "agile" events. People that do it actually do it, people that want to talk about how they should be doing it just talk about it.
This has the smell of ad-hominem on it. How about a little evaluation of the ideas?
> Most organizations which use the word "agile" are using the word precisely because they are NOT agile, and want to be more agile.
Again, this is basically just saying, "It can't be cool because the cool kids aren't in on it." How about an evaluation of the ideas, not the marketing?
> I don’t think values have anything to do with productivity or collaboration. The Americans and the Russians didn’t share many values, but they teamed up into a mighty fighting force during WWII because they shared a goal.
I abhor this attitude. You meet people who are all about "making use of you" at "startup weekend" type events. Values aren't so necessary for productivity in general, but shared values are necessary for productivity in areas where quality and attention to detail are paramount.
> If you are a vendor selling “pairs”, you have an awesome situation where you can charge twice as much, and you can easily churn guys on and off the pairs, one at a time
So you are evaluating a practice by the scummiest abuse of the practice? I think this reveals something, but not so much about the practice.