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Discussion on: 5 Reasons for Choosing an Agile Approach for Software Development Project

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Simon Massey

I recommend that folks consider that ”faux agile”, ”wagile” and ”water-scrum-fall” are a common problem. Here is a video by Martin Fowler doing the keynote speech at an agile conference infoq.com/presentations/agile-2018/

The agile manifesto and values are what everyone needs to study agilemanifesto.org/ unfortunately the Agile with a capital A industry wants to sell you process and tools and how to predict based on a plan. As business communication and customer communication is contextual and hard they often avoid it and it is overlooked.

The situation is so bad one of the people who drafted and signed the manifesto did a video ”agile is dead” youtu.be/a-BOSpxYJ9M

So all in all tread carefully folks - don't do water-scrum-fall or Wagile. Read the agile values and recognize that calling a process agile and doing ceremonies isn't the same as living the values and achieving what the manifesto promises.