Agile is Tulip!

[Lockhouse]

And Agile 2 is even worse! Allegedly.

[Bunk]

To be fair, it doesn't sound like those numpties would have succeeded using any methodology.

[Lockhouse]

To be fair, it doesn't sound like those numpties would have succeeded using any methodology.

Exactly.

[original PM]

The key to this was not that the project methodology was wrong but that the key concept of everything on line was flawed.
Interestingly enough we have just done the same thing a few of us(me included obviously!) identified about 14 months ago that very little of what we offered as a product was really viable to do online.

14 months and about 2 million quid later the expert project team came to the same conclusion.

If the exec's had listened to IT ( and lets face it IT people know the interweb) then money would have been saved and the online portion would have been delivered and generating profit about 10 months ago.

In summation blame the chiefs not the Indians

[bless 'em all]

In summation blame the chiefs not the Indians

Although to be fair, as Crapita outsourced it, we can blame the Indians as well....

[original PM]

I knew that was coming but you know what I mean! Thing is consultants are there to make money for themselves whilst ensuring they cannot be blamed for failure. Delivering the project is not priority 1.

[Spacecadet]

As one of the Telegraph commentards points out:

I highly suspect it was actually waterfall/prince2/ or some heavy weight upfront methodology, posing as agile.

[amcdonald]

Prince 2 take it and you become an instant project manager, it's the rules

[Freamon]

I don't like prescriptive methodologies.

What's the difference between a methodologist and a terrorist?

[Mich the Tester]

I don't like prescriptive methodologies.

What's the difference between a methodologist and a terrorist?

Terrorists sometimes succeed.