From extended to Benched

[simes]

The majority of organisations pursue fake agile.

Completely true.

Scrum masters may report to me, but the underlying plan is waterfall.

True story. Admittedly some time ago now, I was in a big meeting at Vodafone. A circular table catering to 15 or so people. We had been there an hour, updating on this and that, and then, at the end of the meet, a final call was made to do a round the table three line update on something else.

And to do this, we were told to stand up.

Why, I asked.

Because now we're agile.

[Lance]

My figures are accurate, not in a week, but over the last 2 years, every single IT PM I know (including myself) is now warming the bench / changed job to agile bollocks or retired


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it's not as bad in infastructure/cloud as 'agile' means home working (no I don't get it either).

So they still use traditional PMs (traditional PM being the sort who think that nine women can make one baby in one month).
Most of them are becoming FTC or perm though.

[ladymuck]

Agile working is the phrase that really gets my goat.

It's flexible working, surely? You work from wherever, whenever. Maybe I'm just another dinosaur after all

[hairymouse]

raise the many CR's to get them released to Prod

La de da, you've got someone else to do your releases for you. In real agile, every team member is releasing all the time, every time they commit to git.

[Lance]

Agile working is the phrase that really gets my goat.

It's flexible working, surely? You work from wherever, whenever. Maybe I'm just another dinosaur after all

I had an interview for a cloud migration. The description had agile on it. So I learnt about 10 agile buzzwords to then find out that they meant flexible working.....
Bizarrely they wouldn't allow me to do flexible working to make them have flexible working so I fooked it off.

[PerfectStorm]

Anecdotally from recruiters it's happening a lot

[cojak]

Agile working is the phrase that really gets my goat.

It's flexible working, surely? You work from wherever, whenever. Maybe I'm just another dinosaur after all

The best one is the most stupid DevOps debate out there - 'Co-location is better than remote say experts'.

Yes, in an ideal world and on paper co-location is better, but it ain't real life so stop dismissing remote working and make it fecking work...

[BigDataPro]

Agile working is the phrase that really gets my goat.

It's flexible working, surely? You work from wherever, whenever. Maybe I'm just another dinosaur after all

You are partially right but not fully. Agile represents collaborative working, with flexibility (on changing requirements), with the teams ability to provide some finished working product at the end of the sprint.

[Loofah]

All was going well with extension in the bag then IT Projects canned in preference of supporting customers BAU work as volumes increase due to Coronavirus (I work in Logistics).

Current gig finishes on Friday, here's to seeing what if anything is out there for an IT PM.

Anyone else had similar?

Yep. Extension all agreed then the US bean counters canned everything UK/EU Was a great role too, thoroughly enjoyed it

[LondonManc]

Agile working is the phrase that really gets my goat.

It's flexible working, surely? You work from wherever, whenever. Maybe I'm just another dinosaur after all

I think the main difference is that flexible is seen as an hours thing only whereas agile means hot-desking, home-working, etc.