Geri Winters
Summary
"While Agile is Failing at Large Companies" is a review of a variety of software development practices, both Agile and those that pre-date Agile, to give the reader some idea of what adopting those practices might mean to other parts of their company. Procurement, accounting, human resources, facilities, portfolio, risk and compliance, and security are just a few areas that can be impacted by the adoption of Agile software development practices.
Ms. Winters identifies the areas of impact and offers suggestions for overcoming the problems discovered.
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FAQ's
I recognize one of the stories. It was a team at my company!
Yes and no. When I say in the book "I worked with a team...", I actually worked with probably a dozen or more teams at many different companies who all had the same problem, solution, or behavior. I see the same things over and over, and so even if I never worked at your company, the story will probably be familiar to you.
What do you mean Agile is failing at big companies? I hear it has been pretty successful.
When I say Agile is failing, it is because there are no really large companies I am aware of who have actually gotten Agile working among all their software developement teams and IT. The good news is, they really do not have to. I have actually advised some of my clients to not change some parts of their company to Agile because the overall cost was not worth the small benefit they might have achieved by it.
You do not seem very fond of Project Managers and yet companies like Google and Zappos found they could not get rid of managers. Please commnent on that.
My issue with project management is that everything has become a project. A project is an artificial construct of no value in and of itself. Project management focuses on the project as if it were of value. What we have lost is management of people and capital assets. We should focus time and attention on managing value instead of managing projects.
What inspired you to write this book?
I kept hearing the same problems, and answering the same questions, over and over at the large companies that have been my clients. So many problems could have been avoided if the executives were more educated about what adopting Agile could do to their company. I wanted as many people as possible to have the information that would help them make good business decisions. That is why I wrote and published this book.
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