I Hate Agile
What do you get when you have no stucture (besides a lot of blamestorming and fingerpointing?) Why, Agile!
Agile is a political doctrine, not just an approach, which makes it especially creepy. They even have a manifesto. So, putting it in place is like asking people who are monogamous to accept polygamy as an acceptable practice.
I believe the only thing Agile has going for it is that you cannot actually pinpoint failure. As my management team would probably say, "well... when is failed really failed?"
This approach is like its own entity that builds steam and moves and shapes its own way, plowing over management, disregarding show stopping issues, user feedback, user's begging you not to roll out....
You know what it really is with that marketing term removed? It?s a pack mentality.
This "approach" has spawned nothing but downwad pressure, denial, lies, deceit, and resentment due to heinous time constraints and rampant politics caused by lack of structre -- and no one even knows where the pressures are coming from anymore! Furthermore, no one questions it! People just lie and cover up.
We have been working working 12-14 hours days for the past year iteration after freaking iteration and are now training on a system that is 20% complete, lying to users, with developers who are covering up bugs and errors and making it impossible for us to find errors.
People will wake up from this and this horrid fad will be exposed. Agile sickens me.
