Oooooooh, I’m angry. I’m getting worked up. For one of our projects at work we’re adopting an agile methodology. It’s a style of development that differs from traditional ways of doing things. When done right it works well. I mean, there’s a specific structure involved in doing things, and there really needs to be a big buy in from all those involved. It requires a fair bit of discipline. I’ve worked with this methodology before in my old company. I’ve seen what in can be like, and how it really needs to have that structure. Yes, it’s meant to be agile and adaptable, and it is. Thing is, it can only be that way as long as certain rules and expectations are respected. There’s a huge amount of trust that’s needed. If you don’t end up trusting a member of your team, things will unravel really fast.
So, back to this project. We’re going through our first iteration and I’m starting to see things that are going contrary to principles. There’s been some flagrant rule bending, and it’s making me nutty. If we’re going to make the shift to agile, we need to go all in. There’s no doing it halfway. Leaving work today I was really steamed. Since then I’ve been mulling it over and forming my arguments. By tomorrow I’m going to do a lot of poking around and I really want to go in guns blazing.
I don’t want the trust within the team broken.
I want a strong team where we can depend on each other to get the job done right.
I don’t want the product owners to set unrealistic expectations.
I want to set boundaries that promote reliability.
I don’t want to over-promise and under-deliver.
I want things to be predictable like clockwork.
All of this is reasonable, isn’t it? That’s why I’m going to fight. I shall be the scrum warrior. This is a battle worth fighting.



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