Quickie: Post-Agile
How attractive as employers are companies that claim to be “post-Agile” or even “anti-Agile”?
—Think Different
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How attractive as employers are companies that claim to be “post-Agile” or even “anti-Agile”?
Think Different
When I was looking at the position description for my current (and so far only) job it included the words Agile and Scrum. I looked up the manifesto didn’t gather a single thing from it and decided to figure it out as I go. Needless to say the company is nowhere near agile, and even bad Scrum isn’t implemented. There are just a couple of bad ideas like story points cemented due to managers’ building their processes around them.
Now, for me, anti-Agile would be an eye-catcher, but I wouldn’t believe it until I saw it.
I believe Anti-Agile or Post-Agile will be attractive to employees that suffered before the misteps of another company that were labeled as Agile. To me both are meaningless labels. I am interested in teams actually pursuing an ideal (not wearing a label).
Only relevant to a small slice of America. Most workers aren’t affected and probably don’t care, so “no more or less attractive than others”.
I’d take “Anti-Agile” as a warning sign that they’re not even going to pretend. They’re a toxic shop, and they’re proud of it.
“Post-Agile” is an odd name. I’d ask them what they mean by that.
Do they mean that that they’ve given up on it? Like, in order to do what?
Do they think they have something better? Like what? And why so mysterious?
“Explain what you mean by that, and I’ll consider it.”