I imagine different companies run/interpret Agile very differently.
I remember at my last company, to move away from waterfall to agile, they renamed all the BAs to Product Designers.
Oh dear …
How is Agile run in your company?
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I believe there is a correlation between company size/age and the number of iterations through The Matrix they go through in their journey to greater agility. I worked with one organization that has had at least four separate transformation attempts involving organization design, processes, tools, consultants and everything else OTHER than a focus on removing organizational dysfunctions & improving behaviors!
Kiron
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I work at a pretty large enterprise and they're currently rolling out SAFe 😬 throughout the entire company. Some of us have actually managed to remain agile anyway though. I will never succumb to fake agile! ✊
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The big challenge companies face is the (fr)agile industrial complex works really hard to make things complicated. Just look at nomenclature - there is no standard lexicon between and even within some companies. For example, I’ve seen different teams within the same company use the term feature to represent:
- The top-level “big work item” in a user story map
- A synonym for epic
- A work item at the same level as a user story
On top of that, companies which purchase or have a work management tool before their teams understand how to be agile using old school (e.g. sticky notes on a whiteboard) methods will be crippled by and adopt the limiting factors within those tools. Don’t even get me started about the issues with the Atlassian suite…
Kiron
The big challenge companies face is the (fr)agile industrial complex works really hard to make things complicated. Just look at nomenclature - there is no standard lexicon between and even within some companies. For example, I’ve seen different teams within the same company use the term feature to represent:
- The top-level “big work item” in a user story map
- A synonym for epic
- A work item at the same level as a user story
On top of that, companies which purchase or have a work management tool before their teams understand how to be agile using old school (e.g. sticky notes on a whiteboard) methods will be crippled by and adopt the limiting factors within those tools. Don’t even get me started about the issues with the Atlassian suite…
Kiron
I like the use of the term (fr)agile! I’m deffo going to be stealing this!
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