Agile Some of us left there ages ago Agile and just want, you know..news Agile about how things are going. Agile.
For reals. Agile.
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As a developer, my impression with Agile teams in TTS so far is that they're short lived. Senior leadership seems to think Agile teams can be assembled and disassembled like project teams of the waterfall past.
It takes 2-3 months for a team to form. Several more to perform. Once a team has formed, work can be assigned to that team. It's at that point results start to appear.
Some leaders seem to get it more than others, but overall Target TTS is stuck in its waterfall and project management past.
We can only hope that Agile will not be seen as having "failed" triggering a regression to waterfall! At that point it's time to walk.
Waterfall is making a big resurgence! Just heard someone celebrate achieving full resource utilization with his critical path algorithm straight out of PMBOK. We are brining BTT back because engineers can't be trusted to understand what the business says. We will have SBE funding rounds every month to pay for all requirements that weren't delivered. We will are bringing back milestone phase gate meetings at the end of all distinct development phases and nothing will move forward until approved by everyone. Change tasks will be much more rigorous and slow like they should be. Clarity will be expanded to run all aspects of team member's lives. They will have tasks to track potty breaks. All open source technologies will be banned and only Microsoft tools will be used. It is so glorious! You should come back! We are thinking of going back to a 70% contractor model and all team members will only do administrative overhead tasks like managing contractor clarity plans and ensuring they don't miss forecast by 10%!