Re: Roll Your Own Agile?
"Nancy Van Schooenderwoert [email protected] [SCRUMDEVELOPMENT]" <[email protected]> Thu, 26 Nov 2015 11:28:08 -0500
| Newsgroups | gmane.comp.programming.scrum.general |
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| Organization | Lean-Agile Partners, Inc. |
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Hi Charles, On 11/24/15, 2:06 PM, Charles Bradley - Professional Scrum Trainer and Coach [email protected] [SCRUMDEVELOPMENT] wrote: > Has anyone out there in Scrum-land ever seen what you consider to be a good RYOA approach work out well for a company? Or is RYOA essentially a unicorn? As I see it there needs to be a set of conditions in place for any kind of Agile software approach to succeed at a company level. Something becomes a "unicorn" not because of its starting circumstances ("roll your own" vs. seeded by Scrum, XP, etc.) but whether the company is ready to recognize its value. I had a good Agile team going in the late 90's but I hesitate to call it "roll your own" because we had foundations in the spiral lifecycle model being promoted by others. The very designation of "roll your own" is fuzzy in that way. But our company was most definitely NOT interested in our methods even though they were glad to have bug-free on-time software releases. These days it's very different because all companies are floating in a context where Agile (some of its key practices at least) is recognized. My point is that anything seen as too new is going to be resisted. Until it survives long enough and grows to a point where it no longer seems too new. When I was trying to promote Agile in 2002 among companies in Boston, many managers told me straight out that they want nothing to do with it *merely* because "I never heard of that". It couldn't possibly be valid if they had not already heard of it. End of discussion. It didn't matter that I had data on our work - "All statistics are just made up." There's a lot of cynicism out there. - njv -- ............................................ Agile hardware? Yes! Agile safety-critical Embedded Systems too Nancy Van Schooenderwoert, Lean-Agile Partners Inc. US mobile: 781 301 1822 [email protected] Twitter: @vanschoo http://www.leanagilepartners.com ............................................ ------------------------------------ Posted by: Nancy Van Schooenderwoert <[email protected]> ------------------------------------ To Post a message, send it to: [email protected] To Unsubscribe, send a blank message to: [email protected]