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Agile or W-agile?

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Written by Rachel Davies   
Wednesday, 10 March 2010 21:44
Look around you and you'll find that many organizations claiming to be Agile or "doing Scrum" are actually doing something else. I call it W-agile. They dress up the work in the trappings of XP and Scrum but really work in nested mini-waterfalls focusing on one big delivery at the end of the project. Often, developers are working in isolation from their business stakeholders which misses the original agile vision. For example, this week I ran a class on Planning with User Stories. Questions asked (see pic) by the people on the course hinted that they were working in a...


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