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what is Agile? Wrong answers only

Nočnica Mellifera on November 12, 2020

Agile is a product you buy in a cardboard box on the checkout line at Fry's Electronics.

Agile takes at least four years to show real results.

Agile is having 30 developers do stand-up one at a time.

Tell me your worst definitions of Agile in the comments.

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Andrei Dascalu

If you say its name out loud you will have 20 consultants selling you 10 kilos of Agile each

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Nočnica Mellifera

now I want to pronounce 'agile' like 'fussily'

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Fernando Crozetta

it's a car. i mean... it's not a wrong answer, but it's wrong

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Nočnica Mellifera

[me on a test drive] where's the kanban board

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Andrei Dascalu

The way to dazzle your customers by delivering thrice the work in half the time

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duncansamuelgeorgefreeman

It’s taking action with little to no planning or analysis. This is a disturbingly popular interpretation in some organizations that are starting the transition from waterfall.

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Sunit Katkar • Edited

It makes management feel good that they are following a industry hot trend. It creates jobs for lot of people whose only job is to have lots of meetings, create release cycles which are not realistic and in general not allow development team to properly deliver anything other than trivial updates .

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Ben Sinclair

What you thought it was last week.

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Valeria

Agile is changing your tasks and priorities constantly with no planning ahead

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Sunit Katkar

Waste of many man hours so that management can feel good about the latest shiny new toy