Good points all - I was just responding to a comic strip that I think meant to riff on the old, “what the customer wanted”, “how sales described it”, “what engineering proposed” etc. about project management but it just wasn’t finding the funny as it put the onus on Agile like isn’t this a silly discipline - well, no. :)
Ah, here it is:
Agile methodology is a defined framework for software development success. It helps teams adapt and solve specific needs at a given time and prioritizes accelerated time to market and the value of user insights. Agile is based upon a set of four values and twelve principles laid out in the Manifesto for Agile Software development.
Waterfall method: talk about building a rocket for 5 years, build the rocket, rocket needs to be totally redesigned because we forgot to put a place for people to go - massive change reqeust, build new version. Project Delay: 27 years
Agile Method: a rocket is not software - do not use Agile
Kanban - kanban is agile
Scrum - scrum . . is also Agile. What are you doing, go back and do the waterfall one
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I use Arch, btw. /s
Take a lap
That’s sort of like saying, yes all human and most animal and plant life will perish in a horrible and entirely preventable human-made catastrophe, but the rocks will be okay.
I mean, it’s a lot like saying that. Which - yeah, okay.
I mean, it has survived all the other extinctions so far. It’s easy to be cocky about it.
We just don’t remember us doing it in so messed up a way before.
Tell that to the dodo.
They were convicted of being a monopoly over 20 years ago.
Do not quote the ancient magicks to me . . .
Space X has over 1200 inactive satellites
I know they’re relatively small but 1200 seems like a lot to be up there doing nothing.
I dunno about morals, but yeah - as a huge Cosby fan years ago, I just can’t even do the routines in my head anymore because of his rapes. Much less listen to them. I imagine after he dies and a few decades go by people might be more open to them, which, is maybe okay considering they’re kind of foundational to standup comedy.
Woody Allen movies are easier for me to eschew just because I’m not really that much of a movie person.
It’s an interesting question. Or conundrum, perhaps.
The entirety of planetary flora and fauna to see you, sir
Well . . . yeah, the planet’s dying.
We shold probably do something about that? I guess?
Almost like some kind of . . . global conspiracy by astoundingly wealthy people to destroy the planet for money and make everyone else live in the polluted extinction event.
Obviously that’s just crazy talk.
Seconded.
What account?
Fucking Instagram. Facepals. Tweetle, or, “Borg” as it’s called now. The TicketyTark. Fuck all that shit. Hey look! Free garbage in exchange for everything about my movments and thoughts!
This was the deal in 2000. It’s been 24 years of marveling at how many people just - give all their shit away. Don’t even think about it. And then have the balls to complain when they get screwed.
This is fucking crazy.
I mean - yeah. That’s. Y’know. Kinda the issue I think.
It’s both. The word “Agile” is used for either depending on context.
To that end, it’s several “systems” depending on if it’s used for straight-software development in a department, or manufacturing with technological components, or an entire enterprise using Agile concepts (like SAFe). Each one could be slightly different, and each one is some variation on the philosophy.
What it differs from mostly is a phase-gate approach typified by project management, where a plan is made, a budget secured, and a timeline set. All of those things are of course present in Agile, just in different ways and not one-after-the-other.
The big difference is project management has been around forever; Agile just over twenty years. So the former is what everybody knows by default, the latter sounds very “woo woo” to a lot of people. I think that’s really what the comic is trying to say - Agile stuff sounds silly.