Going Agile

Wednesday, April 11, 2007

A win, but FUD at the top

So, it's official. We are now a Scrum shop. Although we're not going to call it that since we're taking a few liberties. Basically upper management wants us all to be using the same process, not multiple processes. Everyone recognized that what the development group was doing was actually working, whereas what everyone else was doing was failing miserably (so far so good). So we're all going to do Scrum. Everything will become documented and codified. Except the rest of the company isn't going to change what they do at all.

They're OK with us doing this officially, so long as they can still chase their tails, get nothing done, then point fingers at dev when we have to pull requirements out of our collective asses since they have never (to date) actually delivered requirements. There is such a fear of change at the top that they rescheduled, then canceled and refused to talk to an outside agile consultant. It's kind of comical.

So basically they won't actively try to torpedo what we're doing, but they're still not willing to participate since that would require effort on their parts. Well, I'll take my wins where I can get them.

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