Briefly, on Agile
When you say "agile", I hear "cargo cult".
Agile is a process for managing software development. If you have a great team of smart people who communicate well and trust each other, they can use agile techniques to release lots of small iterations on a software project very quickly. This pattern of software release is often useful for startups. None of this is in dispute.
The problem is that with its rise in popularity, it has been both misunderstood and over-applied. If you have a good software team you can use agile, but if you use agile you will not automatically get a great team. If your team members communicate well and trust each other they can use agile, but if they communicate well and trust each other they could use any other methodology up to and including no fixed process whatsoever, and be equally successful. Agile changes your release pattern, not your people.
Bottom line: great teams produce great software. Great teams using agile release software every two weeks. Bad teams will produce shitty software. Bad teams using agile will release shitty software every two weeks.
Comments
Gabor
In my experience Agile development methodology is more some kind of tool to keep project managers from interrupting dev teams all the time with new feature requests. It also protects teams from making estimates about huge tasks. Giving estimates for huge upfront designed projects is hard because it's difficult to oversee the whole process including all exceptions. By chopping up a project and allowing a client to add features as they go things become a lot more manageable. So I don't agree with you here. While very bright people may succeed using waterfall tactics, I myself need the agile method to deliver quality software because I simply can't oversee the whole picture otherwise.
jeffa
I once worked for a company with a manager who assured everyone we could use *parts* of SCRUM to deliver software faster "because we'll SPRINT!" Groan...
To your point, Gabor, I have no doubt you can use agile methods successfully. That's not the crux of the post. The problem is with people and companies who think: Company A is a success. Company A uses Agile methods. Therefore if I use Agile methods, I will be successful.
Simply aping what you THINK are the behaviors that lead to another person/team/company's success will NOT guarantee your success. Wearing a flight suit will not make me a pilot. Wearing a homemade pretend flight suit that is really just pajamas and some vacuum cleaner hoses will certainly not.
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