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How’s everyone liking agile development?
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<blockquote data-quote="ifreak" data-source="post: 5273067" data-attributes="member: 36710"><p>In theory, Agile is designed to implement smaller more incremental changes to software over time. This results in several benefits such as smaller incremental releases rather than huge changes, ability to make changes easier as the delivery window is usually two or three weeks, and it makes a better use of everyone’s time. However UPS upper management is very reluctant to let go of the old way and either demands more work than can be possibly delivered in the two to three week timeframe or interjecting in the middle of the development process with new priorities they want delivered immediately which throws a wrench in the works. In addition, software developers are supposed to be using the majority of their time writing and testing code rather than spending half their day in meetings.</p><p></p><p>So in English for the operations guys, imagine loading a trailer that has to go out after the sort and after having the trailer half loaded, you get pulled off to go work on another trailer half way across the building and on the way to that trailer you get pulled into 4 hours of meetings after which your sup who was in the meetings with you wants to know why neither trailer is finished.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="ifreak, post: 5273067, member: 36710"] In theory, Agile is designed to implement smaller more incremental changes to software over time. This results in several benefits such as smaller incremental releases rather than huge changes, ability to make changes easier as the delivery window is usually two or three weeks, and it makes a better use of everyone’s time. However UPS upper management is very reluctant to let go of the old way and either demands more work than can be possibly delivered in the two to three week timeframe or interjecting in the middle of the development process with new priorities they want delivered immediately which throws a wrench in the works. In addition, software developers are supposed to be using the majority of their time writing and testing code rather than spending half their day in meetings. So in English for the operations guys, imagine loading a trailer that has to go out after the sort and after having the trailer half loaded, you get pulled off to go work on another trailer half way across the building and on the way to that trailer you get pulled into 4 hours of meetings after which your sup who was in the meetings with you wants to know why neither trailer is finished. [/QUOTE]
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