10 Reasons to Doubt Your Agile Transition Has Been Successful
- Every time product requirements change, you hear a tree fall in the forest in order to support the printing of a new multi-page gantt chart;
- The project managers comes into the office early in the morning so he can carefully prepare the specific tasks to assign to each team member;
- Although sitting within 20 feet of each other, your team members proudly sit in closed offices and only communicate via email;
- Your business analyst is pleased to show you that she managed to fit each user story on 42 50 index cards;
- The last time a business representative attended your requirement gathering meeting, she was using a Palm Pilot;
- As per the project plan, the Champagne has been opened to celebrate the launch of the project while half the development team is busy trying to do code integration;
- While no team members attended, the management team is pleased with the content of the discussions that took place during the end of release post-mortem (retrospection);
- The architects have locked themselves up for 6 to 8 weeks in order to properly prepare for the upcoming project;
- The business representative is waiting for her administrative assistant to arrive in order to take notes from the daily stand up meeting;
- A project control officer has been assigned to the project to ensure each steps have been properly documented and successfully executed.
Do you have other reasons to doubt?
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You might want to take a look at this list :
http://www.codesqueeze.com/101-ways-to-know-your-software-project-is-doomed/
It’s quite funny and…accurate.