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They are correct.

It doesn't matter, and nothing will change in large corporations. That's not a bad thing, or a good thing.

It's just the way things are.

I spent most of my career in large corporations; many of those years, as a manager, where it was my job to maintain all that overhead the author complains about. I'm quite aware of the need for it, and a good part of my job, was trying to streamline the overhead, and shield my coders from it, so they could get more coding done.

Nowadays, I work on my own (mostly), and the difference in productivity is amazing.

I remember when I first read The Agile Manifesto, I was, like, "These guys really get it!" It was a dawn of a new era. The scales fell from my eyes. There was hope! There was a light at the end of the tunnel!

The headlamp of the 5:15 Express, out of Sheboygan.

Seeing how "Agile" is being implemented in corporate (and also small corporate wannabe) shops kinda took the wind out of my sails.

But large corporations seem to get done what they need getting done. Very often, it's fairly "klunky" stuff.

But that gives small shops an "in." If they can speak to the customers of these corporations, they could make some sales.

Then...it comes time to scale.

Let the meetings begin...



>>Seeing how "Agile" is being implemented in corporate

Dictionary definition of agile: "able to move quickly and easily."

There is nothing 'agile' about how 'Agile' is being done in most/many big corps - yet another buzzword sold by high priced consultants who like buzzwords, to top-level execs that think they know what they want.


One large corp I worked at, agile was really just an excuse to use minimum viable products in production.

We were agile until this shitty software was in production and then we would move on to the next project.

That was literally what we were calling having a startup mindset.




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