Thread regarding Chevron Corp. layoffs

Is agile going away or here to stay?

They used Agile in Process Control Network Engineers at the refinery, let that lunacy sink in… you can’t Agile PCN on the DMC. MW got enamored with the latest tech and processes and went ba--s to the walls and clueless to the disaster it’s been to Chevron.

@bnv darn straight … if we hadn’t done Agile we would have been incredibly efficient and there’d be no ENGINE … make sense to me

Agile was sold as the thing that was to drive efficiency. If it had succeeded there wouldn’t be a need for ENGINE.

@joz: only problem with Agile was it “was used and applied to areas it should not have been”. LOL! Ok, well there at least we agree, it should not have been applied to anything related to the petroleum industry! Isolated teams focused on working as rapidly as possible to produce prototypes and then recycling as needed might work well for software development, but less useful for projects requiring integration of multiple highly trained specialists making bets on holes that cost 100 million each. Redos cost a lot more than just making a few new user input menus. It also changed the whole focus to micromanager mo--ns rather than building long term communities of practice to grow skilled practitioners within each discipline and building company competency long term. All and all, Aglie was a complete disaster for our company!

So many comments on every thread prove that it's obvious to all and sundry that chevron is top heavy with woeful management. What's disappointing is that it's not explained by greed. When you promote walking facades, you hard wire their resistance to any threat of improvement.

I’ve never worked with so many smart people that lack critical thinking skills.

It’s not the tools that are the problem. It’s that we promote, support, and only invest in mediocre people, chosen by mediocre leaders.
And this has nothing to do with DEI. Chevron lacks a healthy population of outside talent. It only supports internal myopic employees without subject matter expertise.

Not really. Agile didn’t fail as much as it was used and applied in areas where it shouldn’t have and it was never really bought into by some groups/teams. Should we have blamed CPDEP when performance lagged and we had multiple ROMs and reorgs over the past 15 years? No, the issues go beyond a framework.