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Most managers think Agile means cranking out lovely code faster. The last 7-8 years of my career has consisted mostly of having to clean up after failed attempts at Agile.
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There seems to be some conflation of Agile and Scrum. Scrum is one of many Agile methodologies, including, but not limited to: RAD, Scrum, Kanban, UP/RUP, and XP/Paired -- I'm just listing ones I've worked with directly, there are a lot more, including all of the *DD methodologies. From my experience, Agile is primarily about getting people who are not good at synchronous, real-time communication to get good at synchronous, real-time communication. Secondarily, it's about the collection of data to be able to determine a development team's velocity, which informs product roadmap and/or allocation of development time among projects within a project portfolio competing for development time and budget. Scrum is training wheels for Kanban. The training wheels come off when you have a self-motivated team that communicates effectively in real-time, whether co-located or remotely, and when that team is able to measure their velocity and report it in as close to real-time as possible. Generally speaking, this takes longer than a couple of sprints, especially if you want the velocity number to be defensible to others: stakeholders, management, etc. Barry Hawkins (Riot/Blizzard/Netflix - https://www.linkedin.com/in/barryhawkins) does a great video about Agile anti-patterns that I watch as part of my quarterly personal retrospective: https://vimeo.com/43603455
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Fluegel posted:I was recently hired as a Requirements Engineer at the frontend branch of a software development company. I have about as much IT-knowledge and experience as your average goon and a humanities degree with a professional background in media and journalism. I cannot write a line of code to save my life. My main task will be to work with the PO and produce good user stories. My team more or less uses Scrum and they aim to follow it more closely. I`m in for one hell of a ride. http://www.amazon.com/User-Stories-Applied-Software-Development/dp/0321205685
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The Book Apart series is written for web development, but there's a ton of excellent UI/UX and general design goodness contained within. https://abookapart.com/
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