Monday, August 31, 2009

Agile is a Management Trick

I'm planning four blogs this month to be part of a suite of "tricks". This little blog will act as the placeholder for links to all four of them.

  • Agile is a management trick to exert more control over development.

  • Agile is a customer trick to make development do what they want.

  • Agile is a ploy by QA to take control of the development process.

  • Agile is a programmer trick to manage their workload.



Historically, none is strictly true. But I think they're all true. I will welcome your feedback, as always.

3 comments:

  1. Walter MooreAugust 31, 2009 at 7:17 PM

    "Paranoia runs deep..."

    ;-)

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  2. Jeff AndersonSeptember 1, 2009 at 5:27 PM

    Agile is consulting trick to get gullible clients to think you can help them develop better software with silly things like pairing and tdd

    Agile is a trainers trick to convince students that they can be a certified master after 3 days of training

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  3. IainSeptember 24, 2009 at 2:13 PM

    I'm trying to use Agile as a developer trick to get more interaction with my product management, customers and QA: I'm openly inviting them to take a greater stake and more control! (Although I want to stay in complete control of implementation decisions and developer practices).

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