Remember when Agile was going magically fix everything? It was a magical elixir that was to cure every business ill all at once. Yet it’s forced adoption mostly yielded performative jazz hands, massive inefficiency, and shadow management strategies. It’s almost as if these silver bullet, inorganic solutions don’t actually succeed…
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JU was not responsible for much. He was just the scapegoat
The imagineIT Queen retired and wasn’t even here to experience her design.
Can’t wait until this PI is done. All the planning that is done this week and last week, it won’t matter anymore for the next PI since there ain’t gunna be a next PI! Thank the lord. Agile is done ☑️
Was J.U (the current HR PLM) also responsible for this like he was the platforms? He needs to be held accountable. Perhaps getting sent off to HR was the punishment. That's where they send the IT failures.
Chevron IT again sc--wed up Agile... Hired tons of RTEs and Scrummasters who are super nice and does not make team accountable with their stories.... Many Agile teams in downstream already doing this well before SAFE do not even have Scrum masters or RTEs and they get sh*t done
It's Chevron IT fault that they F*d Agile... one of the main reason is they are "too nice" and do not put people accountable if they could not finish their story because they do not have legit IT skills to really become an App Engineer or Software Engineer to begin with
So yes, it could better to move some of these folks to ENGINE since the leadership there does not have the "too nice" attitude of old Chevron IT as most of them are experienced hires from outside
Agree, nothing wrong with agile as a methodology or philosophy. But completely agree it’s best suited to software engineering where the cost of rework is minimal compared to physical engineering.
But what we are doing is not agile. We took the concept of agile, then applied all Chevron’s usual processes, oversight and controls to it, then disempowered teams to find effective ways of working. Part of the reason I suspect is that we have so many people that only know traditional engineering that they have tried to conform agile to their own world view, badly.
Now we have the worst of both worlds.
Agile is fine for software development where changing priorities and failures are relatively inexpensive. SAFE isn’t agile. Agile is stupid for any non-software development activity within Chevron. I have no idea how it ever spread beyond the border or ITC
I’ve been here 20 years and I still haven’t figured out what agile is
If agile is so effective at delivering tangible value, why don’t the product owners, product line managers, release train engineers, agile coaches and scrum masters all use agile themselves for planning and executing their own work? I’m not taking about the work of the team, I’m talking about why don’t they use agile to prioritise which agile ceremonies they’re going to deliver next sprint to maximise value based on WSJF. I’m talking about having to get every PowerPoint they create into the backlog, prioritised by their PLM, scheduled for a PI, then have to announce to the team each day how they are proceeding with their PowerPoint, instead of just getting on and doing it.
Product Owners can start creating user stories documenting the acceptance criteria for their customer engagements and all the meetings they have, and start considering whether they have enough story point capacity.
After all, if these processes are good enough for their teams, and so incredibly necessary to deliver value at scale, surely they’re good for them too?
Agile=Product Owner = Scrum Master = SxxT
Engine is not answer to make Chevron better.. it's answer to save money even if there is compromise on quality.. if they don't smartly things may be okay but it's so hard to get it all right .. and when I see people involved.. you are not sett up for win ! And yes Agile is fraud
Remember when we had to stick postits on a wall and move those giant curtain sheets of paper around? And then connect them with string? What a cluster. How many millions did we p-ss away?
OMG. Agile was the product of the simplification initiative. That's what happens when we put inexperienced people with no really upstream (Or downstream) experience in a position to find ways to make workflows simpler. Just SAD that we are an oil company wanting to be a tech company.