Can someone explain why the whole company is still doing this "Agile" thing?
I get that it has its place, but Agile everything?!?!?!
CrAzY
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Agile su-ks the hind t-t
Most big corporates aren't really doing Agile. Generally they are taking pieces of agile methodologies like Scrum and applying them poorly and universally to large organizations. Lack of priority, distance between development team and customer, pre-determined scope, etc. are the culture which is the opposite of agile. Agile at large corporates is usually just a buzz word consultants use which has now become a scapegoat for everything bad that happened when you half listened and didnt understand the underlying principles. ROI shrinking? Must be Agile's fault! Stub your toe? It was probably that damned agile again!
The spotify model creators told people to not use their model, as it only made sense for their org which at the time was very small and designed around autonomous and independent teams. They abandoned the model long before BCG started selling it to large corporates where it was a poor fit.
advisory.fidelity.com was the first group to really use agile in the early 2000s.
Do you all realize Fidelity birthed the Agile movement in the mid-1990s? Fidelity had some failing projects and couldn't get their brokerage website up and running (it was one of the last brokerages to have an online presence), so they brought in Scrum. Without Scrum, there would be no Agile, period. How ironic isn't it?
Fidelity eventually returned to its waterfall ways, and when projects failed, they would bring back Scrum. Eventually, Fidelity tried to create its own version of Agile called FAM, but it was based on RUP. It then tried to copy the Spotify Model, which Spotify doesn't even use anymore.
Agile works because of one thing… Transparency. And the people that hate it hate the fact they can’t hide the BS or hide in a waterfall process. Business has to be accountable and actually prioritize work which they show and ineptness to be able to do. They can’t hide it by throwing all the work over a wall for teams to do because they can’t prioritize it.
For Agile to thrive in a company, leadership must help everyone understand the need for change. We lack leadership because we laid off or gave early retirement to experienced leaders. Fidelity has been on the Agile bandwagon for over a decade and has been burned by many consultants and fake Agile coaches with two day certifications
Business agility is vital for modern companies to remain relevant. Fidelity's business is being disrupted by FinTech companies, Robinhood, and competitors like Schwab and TD every day. Margins are being eaten away year after year. However, copying the Spotify model using terms like Squads and Tribe Leaders and going through the motions of Daily Standups doesn't make any company Agile.
Agile is going to be the downfall of the company. It turned Fidelity into pure chaos
Yeah. "Agile" for product development makes sense if the company is going to compete against rising fintech. But, clearly sr leadership doesn't know cr-p about the differences between product development and business operations. Actually, unless you're a developer, I'm pretty sure you don't have the first idea what "Agile" is or should be.
Because Fidelity can’t think for itself. It’s a follower and never a leader.
cause some consultants said it was great
Managers trying to justify their existence