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Out of 6 teams I have worked with claiming to use Scrum only 1 did so . The others just used Scrumfall or some other Fr-agile methodology and lived in total denial . And it was always the same in every case , every case the business refused to step up as Product owner and basically bullied the devs . And this is speaking as someone who has worked as developer , Scrum Master and Dev manager .
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Welcome to IEEE Spectrum’s third interactive ranking of the most popular programming languages. As defined by the official IEEE random number generator
Although they do use more criteria than the other RNGs
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While we can all agree agile is better than waterfall development, the iterative methodology has an awful lot of detractors from it's history of misuse. Because we've seen too many other "Silver Bullets"?
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Because it doesn't work?
Years of failure must tell us something. Either we're all stupid (possible) or agile (in its present form) does not work when the rules are slavishly adhered to. Actually, nothing works properly when you have slavish adherence to a set of rules that can only be applied to a very limited set of specific contexts none of which ever seem to fit the real world.
I propose a symposium to discuss and formulate the next big thing - I say we call it "contextual development". [Edit: looks like some smartass already thought of that so how about "sensible development" or is that too straightforward?]
[Edit: "holistic synergy application development"?]
Any takers?
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R. Giskard Reventlov wrote: [Edit: "holistic synergy application development"?]
That's the bees knees of names, mate!
I'm in as long as we could have status meetings every 2 hours with this new shiny methodology. 
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R. Giskard Reventlov wrote: [Edit: "holistic synergy application development"?]
Does it come with incense and free massages?
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At last a methodology with a happy ending.
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no, but you get free sausages. 
#SupportHeForShe
Government can give you nothing but what it takes from somebody else. A government big enough to give you everything you want is big enough to take everything you've got, including your freedom.-Ezra Taft Benson
You must accept 1 of 2 basic premises: Either we are alone in the universe or we are not alone. Either way, the implications are staggering!-Wernher von Braun
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I suggest clustered elephant development.
Because elephants never forget anything and a cluster looks like a meeting; and that'll help get PHB buyin. 
Thinking about this a little more, cluster also has the scent of cloud computing on it; so we'd be buzzword compliant from the start. 
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
modified 27-Jul-16 9:00am.
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That's like "sensible gun laws". They're only sensible to the people that make them up.
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
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You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010
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When you pry the gun from my cold dead hands, be careful - the barrel will be very hot. - JSOP, 2013
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I suggest Rapid Clusterfuck Development?
#SupportHeForShe
Government can give you nothing but what it takes from somebody else. A government big enough to give you everything you want is big enough to take everything you've got, including your freedom.-Ezra Taft Benson
You must accept 1 of 2 basic premises: Either we are alone in the universe or we are not alone. Either way, the implications are staggering!-Wernher von Braun
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I have written an article about the topic of the thread but can't decide if I should post it or not. Hmm.
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Might better be a soapbox item.  
#SupportHeForShe
Government can give you nothing but what it takes from somebody else. A government big enough to give you everything you want is big enough to take everything you've got, including your freedom.-Ezra Taft Benson
You must accept 1 of 2 basic premises: Either we are alone in the universe or we are not alone. Either way, the implications are staggering!-Wernher von Braun
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Haha: no, it's not quite as whimsical as this thread!
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Because - and I may have said this before - "Agile" is a team management process, not a software development process. When it is explicitly used as a software development process it doesn't work...but nor should it, because that is not what it is for.
Then, of course, we have airline magazine articles from the weavers of the fog like:
"Agile for distributed development teams"
"Agile for the enterprise"
etc. that just compound the madness.
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Duncan Edwards Jones wrote: "Agile" is a team management process, not a software development process.
Thank you. 
It amazes me how otherwise reasonably intelligent persons think you can somehow slap on an agile process to a dev team and magically solve its woes. If your company doesn't operate in an agile manner, don't waste your time trying this.
/ravi
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Ravi Bhavnani wrote: If your company doesn't operate in an agile manner, don't waste your time trying this.
BINGO! DING! DING! DING! DING! ...
#SupportHeForShe
Government can give you nothing but what it takes from somebody else. A government big enough to give you everything you want is big enough to take everything you've got, including your freedom.-Ezra Taft Benson
You must accept 1 of 2 basic premises: Either we are alone in the universe or we are not alone. Either way, the implications are staggering!-Wernher von Braun
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TheGreatAndPowerfulOz wrote: BINGO! DING! DING! DING! DING! ...
Heh. 
In my previous and current lives, it was the CEO who decided that we (the company as a whole) would operate in an agile fashion. We had to take the time to educate the entire workforce before this happened. I ![Heart | [heart]](https://codeproject.global.ssl.fastly.net/script/Forums/Images/love.gif) working in small early-stage companies where a large percentage of management is technically competent. As a developer, I rarely have to explain or dumb down things to management. Or beg for better hardware or tools.
/ravi
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So, you've got waterfall development, which was intended to be a joke. You've got agile development, which, as Duncan points out, is not about development but about team management.
And this is the best, after some 60+ years of software development, that we have to offer as a methodology for software development?
Wow, that just is pathetic.
Time to write an article.
Marc
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Why not join my "holistic synergy application development" methodology symposium and come up with the next big thing?
Like a system that works...
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I prefer the caveman coding method, where everyone sits around a fire and codes naked, and every time someone reaches a milestone or solves a particularly nasty coding problem, he (or she) stands up and proceeds to dance around said fire singing songs of their success, while everyone else sits and drinks themselves into a stupor.
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
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You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010
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When you pry the gun from my cold dead hands, be careful - the barrel will be very hot. - JSOP, 2013
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If you let go of the nakedness and the fire (in some cases), that's exactly how certain workplaces handle software development. 
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I think that, in my experience, the best system is the solo developer or very small group - the question is how to scale that up to corporate ambition. Low impedance methodologies like "micro service architectures" help.
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Because it's too darn slooowww!!!
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When you have nothing, Agile does works, though so does most anything. Unfortunately, it doesn't take long for management to realize that Agile makes for lots of bureaucracy and then it turns to hell.
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