Non Agile Technical Roles

[ChrisFromGreece]

We had a "living" design documented on Confluence with issues and tasks linked in JIRA.

+1

Wiki is my preference as well and how we documented everything on my project wiht the added benefit of linking everything back to JIRA.

[LondonManc]

Agile doesn't mean no documentation. People use agile as an excuse to not do documentation

Correct. But that's how it seems to be applied in many "agile" projects.

A light version of PRINCE2 works; you pick and choose the documents and steps you deem necessary for your project and just use them, depending on what you're delivering, but Agile is much more a case of do it properly or don't bother.

[ChrisFromGreece]

Correct. But that's how it seems to be applied in many "agile" projects.

A light version of PRINCE2 works; you pick and choose the documents and steps you deem necessary for your project and just use them, depending on what you're delivering, but Agile is much more a case of do it properly or don't bother.

I think PRINCE2 is easier to apply as you are already operating within a traditional PM environment.

Similarly, if you are using Scrum properly (and hopefully successfully), then scaling up to use SAFe or LeSS should be straight forward.

[LondonManc]

I think PRINCE2 is easier to apply as you are already operating within a traditional PM environment.

Similarly, if you are using Scrum properly (and hopefully successfully), then scaling up to use SAFe or LeSS should be straight forward.

Not using it at all here, but it's not an agile project that I'm on.

[VillageContractor]

I think PRINCE2 is easier to apply as you are already operating within a traditional PM environment.

Similarly, if you are using Scrum properly (and hopefully successfully), then scaling up to use SAFe or LeSS should be straight forward.

Not many places do

[ChrisFromGreece]

Not many places do

That's where an Agile Coach could help...

[LondonManc]

That's where an Agile Coach could help...

It depends if there's appetite for it. The idea of hiring twice as many programmers will go down about as well as a hedgehog in a condom factory.

[ChrisFromGreece]

It depends if there's appetite for it. The idea of hiring twice as many programmers will go down about as well as a hedgehog in a condom factory.

Definitely depends on appetite... why would you need twice the programmers?

[eek]

That's where an Agile Coach could help...

I've met many who can talk the talk, very few who can actually walk the walk and deliver (and believe me I attend a fair few agile meetings)..

Also you don't need pair programming - as with many things "Agile" pair programming is not a requirement of agile. Just a tool that has uses at times...

[ChrisFromGreece]

I've met many who can talk the talk, very few who can actually walk the walk and deliver (and believe me I attend a fair few agile meetings)..

Also you don't need pair programming - as with many things "Agile" pair programming is not a requirement of agile. Just a tool that has uses at times...

That indeed is very true... even in my company we have employed over time "Agile Coaches" at £1300/day who didn't really do anything apart from talk how in theory the Agile Transformation would work. And to be fair they make the rest look bad and give Agile a bad name...

So yeah, I agree with you!