Thursday, September 06, 2018

Agile is a Waste of Time

Instead of saying anything about Agile, there are a lot being said on the negative side of Agile on the net. Clearly nothing positive about Agile will be presented on this post. From this author's experience it is a waste of time. Before presenting the other Agile opinions, here are why Agile wastes time.

Retro - 'What we did well' - so we can pat ourselves on the back. Good morale? Waste of time for sure.
Retro - 'What we did not do well" - "Oh there is no time on the card"- so fix it. Don't need to spend 5 minutes discussing it.

Why Agile sucks at your company — and what you can do about it.
https://medium.freecodecamp.org/why-agile-sucks-at-your-company-and-what-you-can-do-about-it-f4bebcc661c3

Erik Meijer: AGILE must be destroyed, once and for all
Enough of the stand-up meetings please, just WRITE SOME CODE
https://www.theregister.co.uk/2015/01/08/erik_meijer_agile_is_a_cancer_we_have_to_eliminate_from_the_industry/

Why “Agile” and especially Scrum are terrible
https://michaelochurch.wordpress.com/2015/06/06/why-agile-and-especially-scrum-are-terrible/

I can't take this Agile crap any longer. It's lunacy.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5406384

All the reasons Agile sucks!
https://bulldogjob.pl/articles/262-all-the-reasons-agile-sucks

Agile is Bullshit
http://agileisbullshit.tumblr.com/