Comment Re: Agile and Scrum Are Like Communism (Score 1) 270
Please enlighten me. Point out a single logical fallacy and I will attempt to fix it.
Please enlighten me. Point out a single logical fallacy and I will attempt to fix it.
Around the 90s is when software development was truly in its prime, despite the shit languages and lacking hardware.
Have you heard of the Software Crisis? It didn't magically go away in the 90's. CASE, RUP, SDLCs, CMM/I, ISO, and project management were all trying to fix the software crisis... and didn't. Based on actual data, Agile is the only thing so far that has had an impact (albeit small):
1995 Data - 17% successful software projects (none "Agile").
2015 Data - 11% successful with waterfall, 39% successful with Agile.
Oh dear... Coding is easy, finding people who can code and work effectively in a team is hard.
That's what's important.
And... Coding is easy, finding people who can write bug-free code is hard.
Scrum just makes you build sh*t faster unless you are doing test-driven development, (proper) refactoring and (proper) continuous integration.
What I see are a ton of Agile shops turning out crap, and Agile Evangelists handwaving it away with the excuse that "it's not being done right."
Well if 90% of the places can't do it right, then it's not really a useful system, and all those Scrum Master Certificates are worthless.
Well if 90% of people can't do exercise right, then it's not really a useful system, and all those Fitness Coach Certificates are worthless.
Well if 90% of people can't eat properly, then it's not really a useful goal, and all that education about food is worthless.
Good grief... the lack of logic and insight here is astounding!
PS. The certification part is a whole separate issue.
All sound great in theory, fall apart in practice, and there will always be someone who says, "You just didn't implement it the right way!"
Exercising sounds great in theory, falls apart in practice, and there will always be someone who says, "You just didn't implement it the right way!"
Eating healthy sounds great in theory, falls apart in practice,...
Just because a thing is hard to do or commonly not done well does not mean that the thing itself is bad, wrong, or irrelevant.
Traditional IT project management (sometimes called "waterfall") produces successful results less than 20% of the time. Agile is an improvement over that. Check out the Standish Group's Chaos Report for 20+ years of data on this problem.
It was a bit hard to find a good place to provide feedback. Here is how I did it:
They responded to me by basically saying they were forwarding my comment to the appropriate person.
I just meant that using multiples to compare _any_ temperatures is meaningless in C. If you want to do temperature multiples, K is better, and, of course, you're correct that Venus isn't 90x Earth in K either.
Oops... even with reviewing I somehow missed the connecting words: "Much better to maybe mention that at 470C these elements melt:"
The surface temperature there is 470C (878F), approximately 90 times that of Earth.
Maybe if we were talking about the Kelvin scale, but even then, 90x is a pretty meaningless way of comparing temperatures. Much better to maybe mention that at 470C:
Read more: http://www.lenntech.com/period...
He's mentioned in the credits: Alexei Berteig. He does lots of commercial, documentary, and now entertainment video work. He recently moved to Vancouver from Beijing. You can check his stuff out at Fashioner Films.
I was in the Marshall Islands for 4 months back in 1996. The education available there is extremely limited and not of high quality. There is no post-secondary education available there. Standards for STEM subjects are extremely low, and the dropout rate is extremely high. At the time I was there, it was normal to have a first child in your mid-teens (for both men and women). The Seventh Day Adventist church had a semi-decent elementary school on Majuro (the main island) with youth serving as the teachers, but most of the "outer" islands had extremely minimal educational facilities. Anywhere in the US has much much much better education than the Marshall Islands.
A great deal of this good news comes almost directly from the media coverage, not the fact of the the changes to pay structure. Still, it's an interesting case and I look forward to seeing how things are going in the 2 to 5 year range after the media coverage can be removed as a factor in the organization's performance.
AAAARG!!! I can't believe that Atlassian is making so much on this crap. JIRA is the WORST POSSIBLE CHOICE for an Agile environment. The very first value of the Agile Manifesto is "Individuals and interactions over processes and tools". (Agile Manifesto)
Not really - even a stopped clock is right twice a day. As far as TFA is concerned, though, I find it absolutely hilarious that the agile fanclub has now gone so far as to "prove" MMM wrong on a very foundational level. Let me be clear: there are a class of problems that cannot be solved just by working more energetically.
I'm part of the "agile fanclub" and I actually am constantly telling people that the whole reason for Agile is because of the truth of the Mythical Man-Month. Agile is not a silver bullet and if someone told you it is, then they didn't understand Agile. Agile values, principles and tools (such as Scrum or XP), give us an environment where we recognize the limits of complexity and communication and help us maximize goodness (productivity and happiness) given those complexity and communication limits.
Extraordinary claims requires extraordinary evidence, and the claim made in the summary is in the same class of all other extraordinary claims, hence we require more than a simple "here's why our claim might be true".
Strongly agree! This dev-ops thing is good, but it's at the height of its hype cycle right now. It's not a silver bullet and any claims to be one need rigorous evidence.
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