My experience with Agile is that it sounds like it would be great if it worked. And maybe it does work for devs. We writers aren't loving it.
'Bushwhacked'
Natter 76: Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Foaminess
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, butt kicking, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
Yeah, we've got dev for whom many, it isn't that different from what we do already, but also firefighting & doc & the latter two don't fit well into that schema unless you just exclude them from the same rigidity. That's what is causing the most tsuris. That and the dev who just work best to be left alone. And I'm throwing down on that fight.
I don't have managerial authority, deliberately. I have seniority & knowledge & history with managing personalities. So my efficacy in my fight rides on those pillars whose strength is judged several levels up the food chain with a very new middle. We'll see.
I love imagining what people here are like at work!
Ask me anything about Agile! Or being a writer working with Agile dev teams, for that matter.
We have a conference call with a lawyer in a bit. My stomach is very wonky with stress.
As a dev, pretty much every job is agile any more, and that's a good thing -- but it's super important to realize that there's a difference between agile and Agileā¢ and the sooner you adapt all the silly corporate rules to a structure that actually works for you, the more actually agile you'll be.
Calm~ma, sj. I hope you feel better after the call.
Welp. Guess what? I'm in this training with literally my division boss, the one who foisted agile on us & several other div heads & a deputy director & various other upper level mgmt.
And I am not censoring & this just got really interesting.
I'm sitting next to him.
Sending much calming ~ma, sj.
I have never even heard of Agile!