Agile – the pied piper of software development
Almost every software development company today is rushing to adopt Agile scrum as their preferred software development methodology. Little attention is paid to the nuances of agile as can be understood from bits of conversations below - “The client wants us to deliver fast and so they want us to do Agile” ... was what I heard from an onsite person visiting the ‘xxx’ offshore office in India. “We are running behind schedule and need to expedite the delivery. Let’s increase the velocity of the team to ensure that we deliver on the date committed to the client” – was what my program manager said for a project for which the product backlog has been ever growing and the goal always looked far off without changing the delivery date. “We are doing agile, right? So why can’t you make this little change … what is the problem? – was what a business stakeholder said in a review meeting to the SOS scrum master. The business requirements were so volatile that they changed many a time