I mean... It never worked for small teams on the first place...

SAFe is not safe. At least that's what my therapist says.

DVS are projects or business units?

These are great tips that are going on my wall and in my wallet. One of the toughest subjects is coaching managers, project managers and other stake holders to let go and to allow the team to become empowered and self-organising, leaving the team alone for the duration of the sprint, stop estimating and reporting for team without the team's involvement, and so many other things. Any advice?

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Scaling a fish, yes. Scaling a shark, hell no. Same for agile ™️

Engineering is an applied science. The core of science, is to demand EMPIRICAL evidence that something is real and/or works, BEFORE believing it. To date, there is ZERO empirical evidence to support the claims of scrum proponents. In fact, the few PEER REVIEWED studies done thus far, show either no advantage, or, sometimes, even less advantage. Why would the multibillion dollar agile consulting industry not publish this fact to everyone?

The root problem seems to be that "we have to respond to inputs much faster now". Where did this rationale come from? Did the big companies grow terrified of small startups taking all their market share? Did the small startups grow terrified of each other? When did we trade our confidence in knowing our problem domains to fear that anyone could just waltz in with less knowledge and dethrone us? I remember companies built great stuff in good time by just focusing on their core competencies. But now everyone seems determined to keep competitors at bay using superficial "we're more agile" means. Is no one confident in their abilities anymore?

Agile is very good at prototyping software, and horrifically bad at making maintainable, scalable software. You can't go from an ambiguous set of requirements and no code, to a database, server, and UI in a week or two without making a lot of bad decisions.

If a triple-A game like Sea of Thieves can do it, it can be done for any project. The problem is in one of your first statements, Agile is not a 'solution' to anything. It's a way of thinking/working that can't be implemented by one person (or even a couple) onto a company. It is a team and company effort. The mere idea of imposing it on people proves that whoever tries it doesn't understand Agile. No process is 'Agile' by default and Agile looks different for different projects/teams, it's even in the word. You can try Agile suggestions, yes, but there is no 1 size fits all scheme to get there. A good start for a lot of projects is to not expect people to just: 'do it like this, shut up and go fast'. And then work out your teams own way from there. You'd be surprised if you actually gave good devs the chance to speak their mind and think about the process.

Agile is outdated, 22 years have passed and many things have changed since then

Hi Geoff. how do you sign up to this course please?

Scrum is a cult reinforced by scrum masters who need the cult to exist to justify their existence.

This video complements what's being taught in the book Scrum Mastery. Great book. Great video. Thank you!

Agile was never about scaling, it was always about producing software.

An interesting and thoughtful presentation.

Hi Geoff, this has been in some of your trainings for a while. I was wondering where it came from originally?

Very nice, this articulates thoughts i had, but could not quite put my finger on. A random thought: Maybe it is not necessary to really scale agile. Maybe just coach teams to be agile (if they are willing) and then don't stand in their way.

As I see waterfall will never die, there is a waterfall in every iteration, just the scale is getting smaller and smaller. Scaled Agile doesn't work because it operates on a bigger scale so it converges toward the classical waterfall. I recently got into continues delivery and the main things are iterative development, small steps, fast feedback. I believe this is agile and this could work for project management as well.

superb - really superb and engaging

I've started reading your book Scrum Mastery today and am looking forward to learning as much as possible. 👍

Google? Amazon?

Amazing content, thanks for sharing your knowledge

Great 👍

Great Video Geoff! Everyone wants to know how to measure a team and you nailed it!

Lovely talk, thanks Geoff. I especially liked the pyramid of results.

Hi Geoff, I couldn't find your video on "Swatting your actions". Could you provide the link please?

"Guiding Scrum teams past the need for Scrum" I really like that. Great overview and summary! Enabling Scrum team members to take over (parts of) the Scrum master role would be (the) one thing I would have added.

Excellent piece of work 👏👍!! Highly recommended for all interested in becoming a Scrum Master.

Over a month or two?

How did I get here??? Massive coincidence, right after a two-day course with Nigel. 😳 Good stuff!

Fuck the two guys who came up with agile in the first place. It's now a tumor that slows productivity and enforces micromanagement.

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Is there audio? Regrettably, I can't access the audio

Beautifully awful, well done chaps. Definition of Done, indeed <3

Nice to see you Geoff. It was 10 years ago since you and Paul trained me in the SM/ASM principles in Holborn. I am still at it and still learning. Keep'em coming 😀

I couldnt click this video fast enough when I saw the title, hope it's the panacea I've been looking for! Edit: Loved the story mate, you're a great teller, but you barely spoke about the titular topics

I don't really understand the role of HR at this point, what the first point of recruitment is there for? I assume to implement the old good behavioural screening procedures...

Nice format. Clear & Succinct

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Good one on motivational debt. Agile demotivates.

Loved the conversation. Loved the velocity response!

Did they get the job?

I suddenly laughed because of the "Velocity" stuff. hahahahaha! I usually asking this question during interviews and how they answer would really depend on how they are as a person in challenging the status quo. With that! Paul you passed! hahaha! :D

great video. subscribed. love the story. However, are you saying, the top priority projects described were the value streams? That kinda differs from my understanding...

Agile: "We are uncovering better ways of developing software" Scaling framework: "... so you don't have to."