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amundskm | 2 years ago

Developers dont like agile for two reasons.

One is a valid criticism of the implementation of agile. 80% of all companies "doing agile" don't want to give up their traditional command and control so they never meet what the agile manifesto intends. Which is to reduce the overhead of projects and let the people doing the work make the decisions.

The second reason developers dont like agile is because some developers have this lone wolf attitude to development. They don't want to have to communicate and compromise with others on their work. They want to be given a project and left alone until its done. This type of development is not great for the business because there is no transparency into if the work being done is work the company needs done. And no feedback for developers if what they have created is correct until its completed.

Communicate and trust are what make great teams work. Bad implementations of agile are a lack of trust. Developers hiding away creates a lack of communication.

Agile should be a north star of what a team aims to achieve and not a religion to be followed without question.

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