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Agile Makes No Sense (hackernoon.com)
13 points by fagnerbrack on Sept 14, 2018 | hide | past | favorite | 2 comments



Agile only works when you respect and admire your co-workers enough to lock yourself in a room with them for sixteen hours a day, 6 days a week.

Look around at your team. Do you think they like each other that much. Would they survive as cell mates in a federal penitentiary?

No? Then your plan is doomed. You are operating a death march.

Some have it. Some don't.

I've been on teams where I can say yes, I liked everyone that much. When you ask me to be a fanatic, I'll only be one for the right people. People I adore.

Otherwise? This is a paycheck. Don't get frisky. I'm not zealous about even getting out of bed in the morning.


I disagree you need to like each other. You just need to be professional. Understand that a team is like a distributed system, only that you have meat and neurons instead of boards and circuits. If you can't deal with your technical job, then you're not a fit for it.




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