Agile is a product you buy in a cardboard box on the checkout line at Fry's Electronics.
Agile takes at least four years to show real results.
Agile is having 30 developers do stand-up one at a time.
Tell me your worst definitions of Agile in the comments.
Discussion (12)
If you say its name out loud you will have 20 consultants selling you 10 kilos of Agile each
now I want to pronounce 'agile' like 'fussily'
A nice lexicon of things to say while working at Big Corp to cover the the fact that you're still using waterfall
..oh wait you said wrong answers, sorry
it's a car. i mean... it's not a wrong answer, but it's wrong
[me on a test drive] where's the kanban board
It’s taking action with little to no planning or analysis. This is a disturbingly popular interpretation in some organizations that are starting the transition from waterfall.
It makes management feel good that they are following a industry hot trend. It creates jobs for lot of people whose only job is to have lots of meetings, create release cycles which are not realistic and in general not allow development team to properly deliver anything other than trivial updates .
The way to dazzle your customers by delivering thrice the work in half the time
What you thought it was last week.
Agile is changing your tasks and priorities constantly with no planning ahead
Waste of many man hours so that management can feel good about the latest shiny new toy
Kind of sports that's making people exhausted while sitting behind the keyboard. You can feel the goal when you reach to Friday with 'done' state tasks.