I believe the original ethos of the Agile manifesto could properly be called... "Managing Management". Agile is an attempt to recreate the natural self-organising behaviours of a group of technical collaborators with a common goal, but in a synthetic management-friendly skin. All the rituals and pointless meeting-creep and ever increasing pressure to deliver features and milestones to the mindless beat of a 2-week metronome - basically everything I hate about modern IT development monoculture - is inflicted upon creative thinkers for no purpose other than to grant the illusion of control to middle management. Sometimes a guy just needs to vent in comments at random strangers in order to find the composure to continue pretending it all makes sense at the next Sprint Planning Meeting. We wouldn't want to upset the cargo-cult.
Anything that can be turned into a cult will be turned into a cult Humans love thinking they found a shortcut and there are other humans that have noticed this and will make something to sell the group that looks for shortcuts Humans are lazy We are also trained to buy everything in a neat step by step packaging That's the real issue Humans don't want to think or do the work necessary, they want to buy a shortcut and creative knowledge work doesn't happen that way
We need a new name for the agile ideas and way to think about making stuff
Im working on "Adventuring" or "Dragon Slaying" instead of "agile"
I believe the original ethos of the Agile manifesto could properly be called... "Managing Management".
Agile is an attempt to recreate the natural self-organising behaviours of a group of technical collaborators with a common goal, but in a synthetic management-friendly skin.
All the rituals and pointless meeting-creep and ever increasing pressure to deliver features and milestones to the mindless beat of a 2-week metronome - basically everything I hate about modern IT development monoculture - is inflicted upon creative thinkers for no purpose other than to grant the illusion of control to middle management.
Sometimes a guy just needs to vent in comments at random strangers in order to find the composure to continue pretending it all makes sense at the next Sprint Planning Meeting. We wouldn't want to upset the cargo-cult.
Anything that can be turned into a cult will be turned into a cult
Humans love thinking they found a shortcut and there are other humans that have noticed this and will make something to sell the group that looks for shortcuts
Humans are lazy
We are also trained to buy everything in a neat step by step packaging
That's the real issue
Humans don't want to think or do the work necessary, they want to buy a shortcut and creative knowledge work doesn't happen that way
I had the opportunity to be mentored by Diana Larson for a couple months. It was amazing.
"the way that can 'wayed' is not the constant way."