Agile misunderstanding : agile (waterfall) in big company

https://jugsi.blogspot.com/2017/08/agile-misunderstanding-agile-ina-abig.html

Sometime, in a Big Company, we confuse agile as another software process.

Agile is a mindset!

… remember the 4 rules of the Agile manifesto

• Individuals and interactions over processes and tools
• Working software over comprehensive documentation
• Customer collaboration over contract negotiation
• Responding to change over following a plan

in reality, Agile Coach:

• installs tools,
• define new roles, such as Technical Product Manager, Technical Program Manager, Project Manager, Product Manager, Program Manager,
• defines rule to engage customers,
• defines beautiful plan.

Below simple rules to understand when Agile is losing Agility and tends to Waterfall.

Bad Practices

1. The customer engagement process is defined by management board instead by Product Owners.
2. Sprints are longer than 1 month.
3. Rebuilding and Refactoring are not embraced.
4. Building features needs to be approved by Program Coordinators.
5. There is at least one manager defining processes.

Good Practices

1. The customer engagement process is defined by Product Owner.
2. Sprints are long about 15 days.
3. Bugs are solved immediately.
4. We promote building and refactoring.
5. Scrum team organizes itself.