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Originally posted by NotAllThere View PostYou can't do R&D by following a methodology.
A methodology ( or "processes" ) is just short-hand for "How we do stuff around here".
If you don't adhere to any processes or methodology you are effectively saying, I am going to work in a random, unstructured manner with no predictable results, no oversight and no control.
I am developing a product by myself. Even I have a practise a methodology. Otherwise stuff would never get done.
Of course in a large corporate environment you may feel the processes and methodology get in the way of you progressing.Comment
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Originally posted by NotAllThere View PostMethodology means a set of defined rules and procedures for regulating a task or set of tasks. The opposite of working to a methodology would be something like working ad-hoc. I don't see "I don't work to a methodology" as a nonsensical statement. You can't do R&D by following a methodology.Comment
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Originally posted by PerfectStorm View PostIs there anyone else on this forum who just "does stuff"?
Methodologies to me always look like a way of using the technical equivalent of management speak as a substitute for just doing things.
Project management is absurdly simple when you look at it: find out what needs to be done, in what way or sequence, what is needed as materials etc, decide who will do it and when, and off you go. All those things like waterfall, scrum, lean etc are just different approaches to the same thing, like one team plays 4-4-2, and the other likes 4-1-4-1. The first one is not inherently better than the second, nor it is worse. Bad team could choose any and still lose, but not because the system is bad, but because they cannot do their tasks properly. So if one cannot plan, nothing will save him, but some things might help him fail less spectacularly.Comment
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