Okay, sure then, we were terrible at agile. Shrug? I don’t really care about what you call it. We were agile-ish, we called me the scrum master, but really my job was to make sure everything got done, was sequenced correctly, right people did the right work, etc.. I know people have some big opinions in the space of how to manage projects correctly, but my take is mostly do whatever works for your people and company to get stuff shipped. If we weren’t really agile so be it.
Using what works for you is perfectly fine. Redefining new words to mean “business as usual” makes it difficult to communicate the original idea. (In this case, the idea of developers making the decisions autonomously, without having managers. Which is what Scrum-by-the-textbook is, in a nutshell.)
Okay, sure then, we were terrible at agile. Shrug? I don’t really care about what you call it. We were agile-ish, we called me the scrum master, but really my job was to make sure everything got done, was sequenced correctly, right people did the right work, etc.. I know people have some big opinions in the space of how to manage projects correctly, but my take is mostly do whatever works for your people and company to get stuff shipped. If we weren’t really agile so be it.
Using what works for you is perfectly fine. Redefining new words to mean “business as usual” makes it difficult to communicate the original idea. (In this case, the idea of developers making the decisions autonomously, without having managers. Which is what Scrum-by-the-textbook is, in a nutshell.)