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Organizational Obstinance – The Idea
Agile in a Flash by Jeff Langr and Tim Ottinger (card #11)
> It can’t work here. “Our company is uniquely
complex.”
> They won’t let us. “Our culture doesn’t support
it.”
> Guilt by association. “Agile is like something else
that failed.”
> Means/ends juxtaposition. “It doesn’t support our
management style.”
> Inferiority complex. “We’re too afraid to improve
the code.”
> Superiority complex. “We’ve been shipping on time
just fine.”
> Rejection of insufficient miracle. “But it won’t
solve all our problems.”
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How will your team respond to the typical excuses when they want
to try agile?
It can’t work here. Agile isn’t a rigid set of
practices. You need only a team willing to start with the core values
and incrementally grow together.
They won’t let us. Start small by tackling a few agile
practices, and win over management with success and the real data
behind it.
Guilt by association. A nonagile, semi-agile, or other
nonwaterfall method may have failed for you in the past. That’s no
reason to avoid a proper agile project.
Means/ends juxtaposition. Software management structures,
ceremonies, and documents support developing software, not the other
way around. Help your organization adopt new structures to support
agile development.
Inferiority complex. Agile improves developers via teamwork
and doesn’t leave people behind in their cubes while hoping the
superstars deliver.
Superiority complex. If you’re perfect, why are you even
considering agile? :-) If not, welcome to a world where we know we
can always do better.
Rejection of insufficient miracle. “Nothing will ever be
attempted if all possible objections must first be overcome.”
—Samuel Johnson.
Civilization World Wonder quote: "O, let not the pains of
death which come upon thee enter into my body. I am the god Tem, and
I am the foremost part of the sky, and the power which protecteth me
is that which is with all the gods forever."
–The Book of the Dead, translated by Sir Ernest Alfred Wallis
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