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rob05c  ·  3586 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: And So We Meet, Again: Why The Workday Is So Filled With Meetings : NPR

Yeah, we tried to do Agile at my work. But managers insisted on coming. And brought chairs. And rambled for 45mins. Every single meeting. So everyone else has to stand for 45mins listening to things they don't need to know. We don't do Agile anymore. Such is life.





user-inactivated  ·  3586 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Oh, if I wasn't clear I don't think highly of Agile, or big-M Methodologies in general. But the mechanism for keeping meetings short works well enough... if you don't let managers come and bring chairs.

rob05c  ·  3586 days ago  ·  link  ·  

I haven't used Agile enough to have a strong opinion. I think you should use what gets the job done. If you, or your team, or your project works best with Agile, use it. If Waterfall works best, use it. If not, discard them.

I definitely agree about meetings. If I wanted to get paid to do nothing all day, I would've become a manager (zing).