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I've been wearing my game face before reaching out with some flow down.
Deliverables
Flexagility
Functionality
Leveraging synergeies
Capitalising internal markets
That’s the worst acronym ever - FFLC
The ironing in this thread is strong. WTaF are you all on about?
That’s the only post I’ve understood.
I've decided that every single person in this thread babbling on about Agile Scrums and Golden Waterfalls as if they actually think their Emperors New Clothes bullshit is fooling anybody is exactly the kind of person every site ops department relishes buggering off home at the end of the day so they can just leave them alone to do get some actual ****ing work done. If you came into our department with that pish you would get absolutely torn in two.
In the spirit of the thread title can any one of you, in plain English, explain what any of this nonsense actually means?
And this is why we are absolutely screwed as a species. Rather than tackle things with straight talk we feel the need to go around the houses talking shite.
Amen.
It’s quite interesting to see IT people dismiss every other industry that does stuff.
Who did that? If you interpreted my comments that way they werent. It was simply what works for industry x doesnt necessarily transfer to industry y. Or, in many cases, even within industry x.
In the spirit of the thread title can any one of you, in plain English, explain what any of this nonsense actually means?
You should probably read TurnerGuy's post, as he already did that.
At the risk of repeating, the "Agile" thing is just a set of guidelines on a lightweight, fairly hands-off approach to organising a handful of teams. It works for product development very well. Perhaps it works for other businesses, but as it was hammered out in the nascent software engineering industry, that will always be the "best fit".
I do it, because I can't be varsed with any heavier or clunkier team organising tactics or methods.
Like almost everything, it has become surrounded by mythology, mysticism, religion, stupid catchphrases, and sharks offering training in all of the above fluff and little of the real meat.
You should probably read TurnerGuy’s post, as he already did that.
He described what Agile is in great detail, but I'm still in the dark as to Golden Waterfalls and Scrumbags.
It could have been easier described as "a project management system that splits work into 2 week blocks and the results used to forecast workload". But then that wouldn't span multiple paragraphs and hundreds of words which people get bored of reading. Why use a simple description when you can give an entire presentation? This is why people get so hostile towards all this talk and the people that spout it, it seems like it's deliberately designed to sound as complicated as possible so the people who are tasked with deploying it can justify themselves by obfustication.