Brief and opinionated
I Think Developers Are Fed Up with Modern Agile and Its Many Issues
Following Modern Agile practices doesn’t make you a better developer.
It feels like Modern Agile lost its focus on individual developer growth and improvement.
It is nearly three decades ago since Ken Schwaber and Jef Sutherland first introduced Scrum, and over two decades since Kent Beck introduced the then-novel Extreme Programming methodology. Surprisingly, we’re still struggling with largely the same problems in software development. The nature of our modern problems is in many ways the same as back then, though accompanied by an array of brand-new complexities that have emerged along the way.
Agile is palatable packaging for management’s sake so they can articulate what their employees are doing.
The Agile Manifesto had–and still has to this date–an incredible impact on software development. Developers got a discipline to call their own, a source of pride, and a fresh approach to their work. Focus shifted from daunting tasks, documentation, following rigid processes and strict deadlines, to more dynamism, and engaging hands-on work.
