Return to Tools available

Agile

I have no experience of Agile – so let me offer the interesting views of John Seddon, Vanguard Consultants – taken from his book ‘Beyond Command and Control’

AGILE:

  • An approach first developed for software development, because of all the failures of large-scale IT systems
  • Then, an article in the Harvard Business Review entitled ‘Embracing Agile’ followed which said, given its success to date, it should become the go-to means for organisation-wide transformation
  • But its success record has not been good
  • The government’s Universal Credit project is an appalling example
  • Vanguard soon came to regard it as ‘the most dysfunctional management fad we have ever come across’
    • It assumes IT features are always beneficial
    • There’s no recognition of what IT should and should not be employed to do
    • It dreams up things to create rather than grounding change in knowledge of the likely outcomes
    • There’s no recognition of the importance of knowledge as the right starting-place
    • ‘Stories’ are inappropriate representations of reality
    • Cost control drives delivery of IT rather than effectiveness
  • Real customers’ needs are not understood, so not met

 

en English
af Afrikaanssq Albanianam Amharicar Arabichy Armenianaz Azerbaijanieu Basquebe Belarusianbn Bengalibs Bosnianbg Bulgarianca Catalanceb Cebuanony Chichewazh-CN Chinese (Simplified)zh-TW Chinese (Traditional)co Corsicanhr Croatiancs Czechda Danishnl Dutchen Englisheo Esperantoet Estoniantl Filipinofi Finnishfr Frenchfy Frisiangl Galicianka Georgiande Germanel Greekgu Gujaratiht Haitian Creoleha Hausahaw Hawaiianiw Hebrewhi Hindihmn Hmonghu Hungarianis Icelandicig Igboid Indonesianga Irishit Italianja Japanesejw Javanesekn Kannadakk Kazakhkm Khmerko Koreanku Kurdish (Kurmanji)ky Kyrgyzlo Laola Latinlv Latvianlt Lithuanianlb Luxembourgishmk Macedonianmg Malagasyms Malayml Malayalammt Maltesemi Maorimr Marathimn Mongolianmy Myanmar (Burmese)ne Nepalino Norwegianps Pashtofa Persianpl Polishpt Portuguesepa Punjabiro Romanianru Russiansm Samoangd Scottish Gaelicsr Serbianst Sesothosn Shonasd Sindhisi Sinhalask Slovaksl Slovenianso Somalies Spanishsu Sudanesesw Swahilisv Swedishtg Tajikta Tamilte Teluguth Thaitr Turkishuk Ukrainianur Urduuz Uzbekvi Vietnamesecy Welshxh Xhosayi Yiddishyo Yorubazu Zulu