Was at a fortune 10 (well 5) when they 'went agile' (kanban). They claimed big boosts in productivity but with no baselines for comparison. In the datacenter we had things pretty well regimented thanks to good design, organization, and automation. Agile added a fairly large meeting overhead compared to what was already there. Throughout it looked like a 'ground and pound' where all that mattered was moving cards as fast as possible.
It's possible that the place I was at was just not good at it. Agile seemed like it was aimed mostly at getting rid of waterfall, and neither seemed to fit network engineering. Looking at another place using agile - everything about the place looks good except that; could be I just have agile PTSD. Anyone have positive agile accounts?
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