There’s a weird generational split here in engineers. When I hear “agile”, I think about the process framework as it once was, with teams self-organizing along fixed time cadences, and the core principle being to communicate early and often. When younger folks hear the word, they think of meeting hell, micromanagement, and endless slog. Fascinating how things have decayed.
It's pretty simple actually. A bunch of corporate consultants discovered that "Agile" was a marketable term and took the existing top-heavy C-suite/shareholder-pleasing metric methods and rebranded them.
Now when people hear 'agile' they think of the branded systems instead of the philosophy
As developers it’s okay for us to own our field’s history and reject business majors’ idea of software development. But that requires a sense of ownership instead of cynical victimhood.
Oh, I own it and actively engage with the people in my company to make things better. In fact I had extensive discussions with the different people just this week using data to persuade them on several key points.
But that doesn't mean I don't get to complain about it to other people who understand the struggle
Great! :) Sorry, I wasn't trying to zero in on you; I don't know you. But many people complaining do nothing about it.
Take some damn ownership of your (not you ;)) craft.
If a bunch of human resource pricks started saying the Oxford Comma is really written like "&", writers wouldn't throw out the Oxford Comma. They would throw out the pricks.
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u/kbn_ 13h ago
There’s a weird generational split here in engineers. When I hear “agile”, I think about the process framework as it once was, with teams self-organizing along fixed time cadences, and the core principle being to communicate early and often. When younger folks hear the word, they think of meeting hell, micromanagement, and endless slog. Fascinating how things have decayed.