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Reminds me of the "Peter Principle": "Every Employee Tends to Rise to His Level of Incompetence." I don't think any methodology can compensate for that. Good management will consider team culture and project requirements and then choose the most appropriate development methodology--and tweak it as necessary to meet exigencies. Good software has been created using Waterfall, Iterative, and Agile methodologies. No methodology, however, can make up for incompetence.
Leonard
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Subject: RE: I'm now blogging about Agile & TW
Uh, did we work at the same place and not know it? LOL!
I felt like I was suffocating!
Tammy Van Boening
Owner/Principal
Spectrum Writing, LLC
www.spectrumwritingllc.com
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Amen to that as well. In the company where I used it last, I am certain it
was not implemented properly. By having daily meetings, with the manager in
them, you had to say daily, of course what you did yesterday, to put in
backlog, and what you planned on doing that day. He called it "visibility,"
or "transperency." I called it micromanaging gone wild." You could nto
innovate, go beyond your position, use discretion, or grow your position as
a professional. It was all meted out in the Agile Scrum process.
Never again
M
--- On Fri, 12/4/09, Bill Swallow <techcommdood -at- gmail -dot- com> wrote:
On Fri, Dec 4, 2009 at 2:02 PM, Sarah Blake <Sarah -dot- Blake -at- microfocus -dot- com>
wrote:
> I think, however, it is fair to say that a lot of companies or
> individual teams say (and indeed believe) that they're using SCRUM, but
> are in fact not.
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