I'm just wrapping up an Agile project, truly agile, and it was actually quite fun. At the start they tried to get us to use Scrum and 2 week sprints and I pushed back. We had basically no fixed meetings except a weekly sync and a couple of weekly meetings with stakeholders.
In the first 2 weeks we were producing analysis of whether we should do the project at all and my week has been pretty much 20% meetings with product since then and it has been fantastic. We used JIRA but only as a log of tasks, sometimes we were asked to report up some more detailed estimates so we made a rought Gantt chart type plan, but otherwise we've been left alone. We've done the project in a way that truly matches the agile manifesto. And we're only a week or so past the original estimate in a 3 month project, so pretty on-track.
It just reinforces for me that Business Agile is a load of crap[0].
In the first 2 weeks we were producing analysis of whether we should do the project at all and my week has been pretty much 20% meetings with product since then and it has been fantastic. We used JIRA but only as a log of tasks, sometimes we were asked to report up some more detailed estimates so we made a rought Gantt chart type plan, but otherwise we've been left alone. We've done the project in a way that truly matches the agile manifesto. And we're only a week or so past the original estimate in a 3 month project, so pretty on-track.
It just reinforces for me that Business Agile is a load of crap[0].
[0]: https://d22qefpbdavdoz.cloudfront.net/#agile-is-hell