Seven deadly sins of Agile


#1

I saw this earlier. The seven deadly sins - social media style.

So what are the seven deadly sins of Agile? I’m curious…


#2

I like this challenge! Let me bounce this around a bit…


#3

Define the parameters a little bit more please. Are we talking in general or just applicable to the various channels of social media?


#4

Depending on what you may read on people’s blogs, some seem to think it is the Manifesto itself! Then there’s Scrum, SAFe, etc. depending on others.


#5

Lust - Kanban (everybody wants it, few deserve it, and those who get it usually find a way to make a mess)
Greed - SAFe (i want a role for everyone and all my processes and procedures already mapped out so I get everything involved with “the agile” all at once)
Sloth - Scrumterfall (we want the new thing but are too lazy to fully commit)
Envy - Agile Metrics (let’s compare team A to team B, see how much better they are!)
Pride - Burndown Charts (it looks so beautiful…let’s appreciate it’s beauty even though it’s disingenuous)

struggling with the last two…


#6

Hmmm,

Let’s give this a go.

Lust: “Did you see that iMac Pro the tester got, it’s not like he even does programming”
Greed: “Look, I’m the senior dev here. I’ll take all the kudos I can get. I made it happen, the juniors do what I tell them to.”
Sloth: “I’ll commit it when I’m done.”
Envy: "Google has a 3-star chef at their workplace, why can’t we?
Pride: “We have a velocity of 354, that team does only 52 story points a sprint”
Wrath: “You absolute morons! How could you make such a mistake”
Gluttony: “Oh that looks interesting, let’s drag it in. That’s cool, let’s do that too. Oh, and that!”


#7

I was thinking in general. I’ve given it a go. What are the seven deadly sins as they relate to agile? OR are there 7 deadly sins in team.

Sloth for instance could be the sin of comparing one team’s velocity to another’s.


#8

damn. @bradstokes blew mine out of the water…