tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1814874240228543789.post2196594888650145572..comments2024-03-28T00:19:17.790-07:00Comments on Agile Adoption Roadmap: Is Agile Mainstream yet?Mario Moreirahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00969447879025623968noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1814874240228543789.post-68428896961026337412012-08-13T14:10:56.297-07:002012-08-13T14:10:56.297-07:00Thanks for this info. This is somewhat consistent...Thanks for this info. This is somewhat consistent with what I am hearing too. Mario Moreirahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00969447879025623968noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1814874240228543789.post-76510778459827658082012-08-13T00:44:54.251-07:002012-08-13T00:44:54.251-07:00From my personal experience job-hunting, I'd s...From my personal experience job-hunting, I'd say more than half of the companies in the SF Bay Area - small to large - developing SW are employing "some agile approaches" (most often components of XP and/or Scrum) - on both the engineering side as well as the Project Management side - and also are looking for agile expertise in their job candidates. On the other hand, practically none of them are employing "end-to-end" or "complete" agile approaches - - -RDougSheltonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13653941383823789472noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1814874240228543789.post-41673651056910256322011-01-08T22:22:33.719-08:002011-01-08T22:22:33.719-08:00Yes, I agree that the size and age of a company ma...Yes, I agree that the size and age of a company makes a difference as well as the companies ability (or inability) to truely change culture to be more agile minded. And it is somewhat irrelevant if Agile is generally mainstream. But I will suggest that this is true because it depends on the specific company and its ability to adapt or not. Great comments!Mario Moreirahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00969447879025623968noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1814874240228543789.post-36936968342325264792011-01-05T10:02:55.741-08:002011-01-05T10:02:55.741-08:00The more I read and discuss about it, I find the q...The more I read and discuss about it, I find the question "Is Agile mainstream?" practically irrelevant.<br /><br />For example: Is Waterfall mainstream? Find four companies claiming to use a waterfall process. None of them will be doing the same process. And two or more of them will not be following what they say they are following.<br /><br />Is RUP mainstream? What about Spiral? CMMI?<br /><br />Very few companies actually follow what they say they are doing. Maybe they started out "by the book" with something but individuals and managers will alter it to match their own knowledge, needs, experience or ego. I once had a project manager argue with me that the highly rigid, big-design-up-front process he liked was Scrum. That is what his former employer called it so that is what it was.<br /><br />Chaos is mainstream and all process tend toward it, in most companies. Agile is victim to the same tendency where people do what they want under a label that means little to them. Not because most people are evil or egoists but because most people are just doing a job, following directions and then going home.<br /><br />"Is Agile mainstream?" is a good question for marketing agile. And, in such a context, I think it is mainstream. Fewer and fewer people stand puzzled by the word anymore. One may have to teach what Agile really means but at least the conversation continues.<br /><br />Is Agile culture mainstream? No, definitely not. Because most companies fail to change culture from what is to anything else. They just change the labels and go through the motions. The companies that focus on culture as part of a process change have a chance to see real benefit.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1814874240228543789.post-57499294187530368102011-01-05T09:01:46.811-08:002011-01-05T09:01:46.811-08:00The larger the company, the greater the inertia. ...The larger the company, the greater the inertia. I would imagine if we looked at separating companies into 2 categories based merely on the age of the company, we would see a substantial difference. The Lean startup movement is powerful (though still some concerns there) - but there are old companies (financial, healthcare, etc) - that are hugely profitable though not even optimal. Their road to change will be long, at least until they start realizing that these lean startups can start eating up some of their margins.Tosihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07210742577747621243noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1814874240228543789.post-85951090509133548912011-01-05T08:50:41.027-08:002011-01-05T08:50:41.027-08:00I recently blogged on this self-same subject, alth...I recently blogged on this self-same subject, although coming to somewhat differing conclusions: http://flowchainsensei.amplify.com/2010/11/01/the-state-of-agile/<br /><br />- Bob (@FlowchainSensei)zx12bobhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07434630569746999346noreply@blogger.com