Software Development : Failed to get Agile
I've just been party to a conversation about a project elsewhere in my work place, my team is not involved, I was observing passively (alright, alright, I was ear-wigging). The conversation was quite heated, one member of staff was adamant things were fine, whilst another was adamant they were inadequate. The two of them were at complete logger heads. The driver of the conversation ran like this: "We're not really designing software, we're asking everyone's opinion, writing it all down and only picking the things we really need to do" As an agile developer this is essentially how I run my team, we write every possible item down, everything and I weight them, schedule them and during out sprint hand-overs we reorg whom is going to tackle diffing parts of the system to share the experience and share different things. This chap however, was incredulous... He expressed "WRITING EVERYTHING DOWN" as a bad thing... He only wanted to do the things he felt ...