Elimination of Project Management
The ITIL instructor was horrified when I told him about Agile. See, we have this problem: Companies and Agencies want everything done faster under the premise that given the quality triangle of faster, cheaper, better -- we can do all three. How? A total lack of planning and process. Sit with your users. Bring up development screens on the spot. Let them change their minds continuously without bounds at a whim. Sure, it may take you forever to fix what they break because of the high concept ideas, but it's their money.
Professional Project Management solves the problem, but it takes FOREVER. These Generation Whine kids are going to be bored to tears and will probably wonder off and get a job elsewhere.
Where I worked, we had in house folks build a Time Track system. It took three years and cost $700,000. It crashes frequently. It only works in a specific IE Browser. There is no documentation on how it works. The employees keep having to call the help desk because of the changes. There are frequent meetings to explain the latest changes. And it is your tax dollars at work (and it's $7 million of your Federal Tax dollars to use Agile to reimplement the Sheriff Department legal system with no discernable changes or new features -- just in another computer "language").
It's a great con game, especially for greedy politically motivated managers who are a triumph of image over substance.
Gone are the days of any substantiative objective substance: It's all do it on the fly, fly by night, here today, gone tomorrow Agile programming, invented by those short sighted geniuses at Sun Microsystems.
You can't argue with success.
No wait.
Sun went out of business and was gobbled up by another mega corp originally built on what has become ITIL principles.
You don't need an Oracle to tell you who.
