{"id":147,"date":"2012-10-18T16:56:30","date_gmt":"2012-10-18T15:56:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/asprotunity.com\/blog\/?p=147"},"modified":"2012-10-18T17:09:56","modified_gmt":"2012-10-18T16:09:56","slug":"shooting-yourself-in-the-foot-with-agility","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/asprotunity.com\/blog\/shooting-yourself-in-the-foot-with-agility\/","title":{"rendered":"Shooting Yourself in the Foot With Agility"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Recently I\u2019ve started tidying up my folders and websites and I\u2019ve found and read again an article I wrote almost seven years ago:<a href=\"http:\/\/www.giovanniasproni.com\/articles\/HowToShootYourselfInTheFoot.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">\u201cHow to Shoot Yourself in the Foot. In an Agile Way\u201d<\/a>. Unfortunately, I think it is still actual and relevant\u2013I keep coming across teams that make the same mistakes described in the article, then fail in their effort, blame the methodology and then try a different one hoping for different results (there is a very good blog post from Allan Kelly <a href=\"http:\/\/allankelly.blogspot.co.uk\/2012\/10\/scrum-doesnt-work-for-us-should-we-try.html\">\u201cScrum doesn\u2019t work for us; should we try Kanban?\u201d<\/a> describing one instance of this approach).<\/p>\n<p>If you find yourself in a situation in which Agile is not working for you, I suggest to stop and analyse carefully what is going on, then try to address the underlying issues, before deciding to give up or to try a methodology different from the one you are using. You might be much better off.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Recently I\u2019ve started tidying up my folders and websites and I\u2019ve found and read again an article I wrote almost seven years ago:\u201cHow to Shoot Yourself in the Foot. In an Agile Way\u201d. Unfortunately, I think it is still actual and relevant\u2013I keep coming across teams that make the same mistakes described in the article, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[5,6,4],"tags":[],"series":[],"class_list":["post-147","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-agile","category-methodology","category-software-development"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2KmbL-2n","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/asprotunity.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/asprotunity.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/asprotunity.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asprotunity.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asprotunity.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=147"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/asprotunity.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":166,"href":"https:\/\/asprotunity.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147\/revisions\/166"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/asprotunity.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=147"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asprotunity.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=147"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asprotunity.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=147"},{"taxonomy":"series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asprotunity.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/series?post=147"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}