We are supposed to be following the Agile Framework which should be frequent releases and iterations of work. Yet we have a release process that boggs us down and requires 2-3 weeks advance CR!! How is this Agile at all!! Other companies do Agile and do not have this level of restriction. Has this ramped up when the tech was moved offshore due to release issues ?
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Our agile. We kept all the old meetings and then added the agile meetings. So now we have even less time to actually work.
We were agile before we were forced to be Agile.
It’s a new ideology, water-scrum with a healthy dosage of JIRA over engineering.
If you mislabel a single field, may thy good shepherd protect thee in the ensuing emails and calls that threaten a SHRP or I&E.
Agile can not exist in a micro-managed, psychologically unsafe environment. Wells Fargo is a fearful organization where employees can not learn and freely participate. Upper management no longer values employees as a competitive advantage. Wells Fargo is a bureaucratic machine, full of hierarchical silos with little or no teaming.
I believe that Wells didn't want to be an agile organization. Rather the execs wanted to see how much agile would stick in their CR bureaucracy.
sources: “The Fearless Organization” by Amy Edmondson
McKinsey "The five trademarks of agile organizations"
agile was just an excuse to lay people off by making all coders interchangeable. I don't think they care about fast releases
Replacing project managers with Scrum Masters has done nothing as well. Change requests with WF layers of controls cannot coexist with Agile.
The whole Big Room planning thing is a joke, as well. There is nothing agile about this place. It's a half-assed transformation that leaves us with fewer people to do what essentially still amounts to waterfall. I thought Agile sounded really good initially, but they don't seem to really want to be agile. The red-tape never seems to get better.
Yep. A lot of red tape and fake Application Security "security theater".
They hire all the Agile SME and consultants just to completely destroy anything Agile about the process. That is the Wells Fargo way!!
It is only getting worse - add in the high chances of a rejected CR the week after you submit and it is 4-5 weeks. It appears to be some peoples jobs to add more layers and requirements every 3 weeks.
There's Agile and then there's Wells Fargo Pretend Agile. Any form of Agile will not save the Bank.