Is Agile going to fail?
This article by Jeff Gothelf asks the question “Is Agile finally over?” after 20+ years of implementation to tech field. He argues that even though Agile’s widespread adaptation hasn’t got the result that Agile was intended for. Many companies claimed to be “Agile” as they copy each other, but the implementation of it was shallow or almost non-existent to make changes according to it. Therefore, he says that agile does not seems working as companies try to make employee follow set of rules instead of working in following the basic principles of Agile. He concluded that organizations need to focus on true organizational agility rather than rigid framework adoption.
This article caught my attention while searching through the internet as it criticizes Agile’s current status in the business world as ideal of agile does not really fit in reality in organization experience. The vague promises and core ideas are often overlooked to the ‘wants’ of either customer or the organization. The output is never about efficient program but a program that works made in short amount time. In the end, it feels like the organization’s internal culture and goals must align with the methods it adopts to fully be efficient which does not seem to work for a lot of groups that ‘follows’ agile. Learning that to me, teamwork following agile principle is hard from top-down management as they try to follow rules made by the organization to follow the given framework, that is why agile is not working for many in my opinion.
This got me to reflect that to practice agile in the future, that I need to try to make sure that if the company says they do ‘agile’ format for development, I need to check with others so that if they want ‘agile’ following company standard or the real agile that I learned in class. I feel like this way even more because when I work at a part time job, company wanted to follow xyz because and it was annoying and required lot of process which contradicted for the speed of work they wanted us to work on. Therefore, no one really followed by the book or the procedures were implemented shallow, so it was not effective at all, I think this was the same case for agile in the long run. It feels like agile manifesto was built for small teams or companies where they could discuss things multiple times in small groups not to be used by large companies as it will be always shallow or just another term to company’s rules to schedule how work is done. Therefore, I feel like widespread use of agile is dying down unlike what the author says because no one tries to keep that rule in big companies.
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