This article is a great way to get people to actually read the Agile 12 steps (erm, ...principles). Far too often I come across some team or company that claims to be 'Agile' without having any idea or opinion of what Agile concepts are. In other words, of all of the people that I've interacted with who claim to be 'using Agile' I'd guess only 30% of them have actually read the principles much less the entire document.
I think you are spot on with your assessment of the motivation of employees in general: some are 'all in' for improving the product/business/workplace/etc. while most really just want a paycheck -and that this is not a bad thing. While some people are comfortable with autonomy in the workplace, most are not (IMHO). In my experience most people want to have clear, specific, guidelines and procedures to follow in order to earn their paycheck. Most people don't want to continue thinking about work when they are off the clock.
With that said, I believe you are advocating that, in any attempt to to implement Agile a balance must be found between purist principles of a methodology and a well defined workflow structure. My experience supports this notion as well.
I too think it would be incredibly useful to see/have more discussions about where and why Agile principles have broken down in the actual workplace/wild. These discussions, ideally, would be analytical assessments. But I doubt such discourse will occur without people drawing lines in the sand -and defending their point of view for the sake of the position and not the argument. Nonetheless, constructively critical articles such as this are useful and appropriate (IMHO).
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This article is a great way to get people to actually read the Agile 12 steps (erm, ...principles). Far too often I come across some team or company that claims to be 'Agile' without having any idea or opinion of what Agile concepts are. In other words, of all of the people that I've interacted with who claim to be 'using Agile' I'd guess only 30% of them have actually read the principles much less the entire document.
I think you are spot on with your assessment of the motivation of employees in general: some are 'all in' for improving the product/business/workplace/etc. while most really just want a paycheck -and that this is not a bad thing. While some people are comfortable with autonomy in the workplace, most are not (IMHO). In my experience most people want to have clear, specific, guidelines and procedures to follow in order to earn their paycheck. Most people don't want to continue thinking about work when they are off the clock.
With that said, I believe you are advocating that, in any attempt to to implement Agile a balance must be found between purist principles of a methodology and a well defined workflow structure. My experience supports this notion as well.
I too think it would be incredibly useful to see/have more discussions about where and why Agile principles have broken down in the actual workplace/wild. These discussions, ideally, would be analytical assessments. But I doubt such discourse will occur without people drawing lines in the sand -and defending their point of view for the sake of the position and not the argument. Nonetheless, constructively critical articles such as this are useful and appropriate (IMHO).