Today Capital One eliminated every agile role within technology, and thousands of people have been impacted.
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Hey, there is nothing wrong with Agile or agile practices, the way it was implemented in CAP1 was not right, I work in an agile role in CAP1 and have got laid off. I wish instead of eliminating the agile job family they fixed the shortcomings instead. But, that would have required work and understanding that the top management lacks, the easiest option to eliminate the roles. I am sure they will bring the roles back but in a different avatar, feel sorry for the teams that do not have a PO as well.
I am with another company who just switched all of our projects to Jira Align. After seeing what is happening, I can’t help but think the writing is one the wall.
Did they let go all Scrum Masters, Product Owners and BA’s?
"It just drives home what you get when you promote based on popularity." so bloody true.
Having been at the company for decades, these manic swings are typical. I remember one period where we were going to develop all software in house, then we were going to go all COTS, then back to developing in house. There was a big flush of most project managers some years back. Then, everything is AGILE development. Now, flush AGILE teams. It just drives home what you get when you promote based on popularity. You get a bunch of really weak senior leaders. Frequent 180 degree turns on these mandates on a regular basis just shows that these highly paid prom court folk are minor league, second string players. They just do not know what they are doing. I imagine strategy meetings include a dart board with various strategies and the top brass take turns throwing darts blindfolded and see what sticks.
who's next?
This is true. All agile project and program managers managing tech initiatives will be replaced by product and engineering teams across the company. This is to cut out the middle man and create efficency. So who is next? And how can you run IT projects without project and program managers?