Flaccid Scrum? The Decline and Fall of Agile?
More evidence that organizations and development communities need a Whole
Enchilada -- managerial and technical agility, not just one or the other.

The idea that "they will just evolve to adopt the technical stuff" is, in my
humble opinion and experience, a naive assumption. Most of the time, that
adoption either doesn't happen or happens so haphazardly that it is as if it
never happened at all.

Scrum out of the box says nothing about technical agility. It is like
selling a car without seat belts and other critical safety features. You
need to be lucky enough to know the right Scrum people who will tell you
that you need the technical stuff too (though even they make believe in this
"later adoption phase" idea).

XP (which, as we on this list know, is way more than just technical
practices), Scurm+XP, IndustrialXP, etc., are examples of Whole Enchiladas.


We find again and again that organizations and development communities are
far better off beginning with Whole Enchiladas then waiting for them to
discover how utterly insufficient their agile process is.

Of course, not every organization and development community needs a Whole
Enchilada or could succeed with it. Yet many do need it and can succeed
with it. A decade of experience has shown us that.

So we need to acknowledge that good processes address critical things and
technical agility is most definitely a critical thing in software
development. It is ill-advised to defer it to a later adoption phase.

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jk

Industrial Logic, Inc.
Joshua Kerievsky
Founder, Extreme Programmer & Coach
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