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Call it out as BS when it comes up in discussions. Spread the word. Stop going along to get along.


In a large organization, this will change nothing. All you can do is be in a trusted position with upper management, and spend your political capital to prevent it. Even then, it may not work if some exec has implementing it as a goal to help their prestige/career.


Problems aren't resolved unless people shine a light on the problems.


Sure, but "Stop going along to get along" is how all these agile processes spread in the first place.

Opponents were ridiculed and bullied by proponents for being boring, old, unmodern, not team players, not using best practice or whatever. And way too many programmers were actual believers for grumpy safeguards to be able to keep things in check.

I think a cooperative approach might be better to get rid of agile or it will just be replaced by some other dogmatic cult. Agile is more of a symptom than the root cause.


I think it's just best to call out BS when it pops up. That would have put a stop to this before it ruined everything. Cooperation is good, but people need to be told they are wrong. It's ok to be wrong. Everyone makes mistakes.




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