Agile adoption roadblocks in Enterprise – is the opposite of Continuous Improvement really Intermittent Deterioration?
“The question isn’t who is going to let me; it’s who is going to stop me.” ~Ayn Rand
Everybody seems to want to “do Agile” these days, but few understand what that entails. Likewise, they don’t seem to realize that you can’t just “do Agile” but you can either “be Agile” or be what you’ve always been (or something else).
English: Extract from Raspberry Pi board at TransferSummit 2011 (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
Today, I’d like to expand on some thoughts I shared on Mike Cohn’s “Mountain Goat Software” blog on Agile:
https://www.mountaingoatsoftware.com/blog/why-your-product-backlog-should-look-like-an-iceberg
For the most part, those comments are simply summarizing some of my frustrations trying to push Agile adoption within an Enterprise company setup for very traditional Waterfall projects and Software Delivery LifeCycle (SDLC).
It’s a problem many Dev teams face.