Comments on: Does an organisation need to be fully committed to agile/lean/scrum? http://www.markhneedham.com/blog/2010/03/11/does-an-organisation-need-to-be-fully-committed-to-agileleanscrum/ Thoughts on Software Development Sat, 11 Feb 2012 23:17:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Luke Stubbles http://www.markhneedham.com/blog/2010/03/11/does-an-organisation-need-to-be-fully-committed-to-agileleanscrum/comment-page-1/#comment-33504 Luke Stubbles Tue, 16 Mar 2010 05:27:04 +0000 http://www.markhneedham.com/blog/?p=2246#comment-33504 Tools and practises are generally easier to teach and and easier to learn (not to mention measure), so many companies adopt them at a faster rate than the principles. This leaves a dangerous situation where you know how to use tools and practises but you don't know why you're using them. In this situation, teams will find it hard to adjust them to their unique project situation or understand how to challenge/adapt their use and thus continuously improve. Tools and practises are generally easier to teach and and easier to learn (not to mention measure), so many companies adopt them at a faster rate than the principles. This leaves a dangerous situation where you know how to use tools and practises but you don’t know why you’re using them.

In this situation, teams will find it hard to adjust them to their unique project situation or understand how to challenge/adapt their use and thus continuously improve.

]]> By: Garry http://www.markhneedham.com/blog/2010/03/11/does-an-organisation-need-to-be-fully-committed-to-agileleanscrum/comment-page-1/#comment-33269 Garry Fri, 12 Mar 2010 09:24:26 +0000 http://www.markhneedham.com/blog/?p=2246#comment-33269 The management at my company don't know the first thing about agile/lean, so we are certainly not an agile company. Having said that, I am slowly introducing the other devs to unit testing, code coverage and continuous integration. Hopefully bit by bit we can get the benefits of being at least partly agile. The management at my company don’t know the first thing about agile/lean, so we are certainly not an agile company. Having said that, I am slowly introducing the other devs to unit testing, code coverage and continuous integration. Hopefully bit by bit we can get the benefits of being at least partly agile.

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