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Yes. What I have said before, for the same reasons, is that when the average office that says "we do the Agile", what they mean is that they have top-down, upfront planned micromanagement via tools such as Jira. *

This has nothing in common with the values of the Agile Manifesto. In fact it's more like the opposite of them.

* I hate Jira. Jira is not the cause of the problem. People's desire for a tool like that is cause of Jira. Kill Jira, and it would soon be replaced with something much the same.



We’re going to be officially moving to Agile! Soon.

By which I mean the project planning committee has created a multi-hundred page document with precise BPM-style workflow charts (based on Jira, obviously), and non-technical managers have started being sent on multi-day training courses to learn how to follow them.

It’s going to be a shitshow!


> the project planning committee has created a multi-hundred page document with precise workflow charts ... It’s going to be a shitshow!

A Waterfall of effluent, spilling from the end of the process pipe, branded "Agile!" (TM, sponsored by Atlassian).

What are you moving from ?




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