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  • Critical Silence@feddit.deOPtoProgrammer Humor@lemmy.ml•Very unpopular opinion I think
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    2 years ago

    They are advocating for agile, therefore if you challenge anything about their direction, they will invoke the magic Agile word to silence criticism about their methods.

    It should be seen as a method that can be adjusted to the team, but this attitude blocks adjustments and improvements even before they start. Its even worse, people will just do anything “Scrum” tells them and reflecting, especially learning from the previous lessons, gets silently lost since the impression overcomes, that it is not allowed. From management side this is fully approved, I mean these people are expensive Scrum Masters, so they know what they do.

    As you mentioned the team is the source of success, not the method itself. The “Don’t” stated previously is on point there:

    You’re bending your team/process to fit agile, and not bending agile to fit your team/process