Author: Zach Bonaker

  • Agile Cancer: Does team-only agile cause developers to quit?

    Agile Cancer: Does team-only agile cause developers to quit?

    When agile coaches have no access or influence with high-level managers, agile transformations won’t work; Zach Bonaker walks away from those agile coaching opportunities. Ryan Ripley observes that when low-level agile coaches teach engineers there’s a better way, and management won’t become agile themselves, many smart developers will leave the dysfunctional company and join a company with agile managers. We need new ways…

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  • Agile Cancer: Stop Whining and Cure It

    Agile Cancer: Stop Whining and Cure It

    As we speak, agile leaders are killing their children. Dave Thomas proclaims that Agile is now for “people who don’t do things”. Giles Bowkett argues that “Scrum should basically just die in a fire.” Alistair Cockburn stood in front of Agile 2009 to proclaim “I come to bury Agile, not to praise it.” Like spoiled…

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