Corporate workers push back against Agile rituals and endless user stories
Australian corporate workers are debating whether Agile methodology has outlived its usefulness in office IT environments. Employees describe daily standups, lengthy tickets and bloated processes turning straightforward tasks into slow-moving committees.
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What Reddit is saying: Workers on r/auscorp argue core principles were warped by management into micromanagement, though some note bad corporate execution is to blame.
Top comments on r/auscorp
Agile is just a concept. Agilemanifesto.org. It’s all the extra bullshit that’s added alongside that’s a problem
So few understand that the core agile principles have been corrupted by business people, and that the thing people do in those businesses is not agile, not even close.
We do what I call half assed agile. We ignore the key components - such as having a clear dedicated business owner and clear documentation - and then have IT just do stuff And then everyone realises that they’ve done the wrong stuff because it wasn’t documented properly nor did it get the right sign offs so they start again
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