Agile is dead, long live pimped frameworks…
Is Scrum the “Art of happiness”? Does Scrum deliver its promise? As organizations grow more and more used to Scrum and other frameworks on the market they also begin to question the frameworks.
Lately, people seem to say that agile frameworks do not deliver their promise. If you have been in the software industry for some years you have seen this before. You are working in a specific way but you keep hearing about this other fantastic “golden bullet” others are using. You try it for some time, but don’t really see the greatness, so you decide to try something else. Something that will really revolutionize the way we are working. Seems to happen to most methodologies. I have a hypothesis about why this happens.
First of all. We live in a world of change. Methods and frameworks are constructions for the world as they were when created. As the world changes the premises that build the fundaments of a framework or methodology are not valid anymore.
But, is that true for the agile movement right now you might ask? Are we still not moving towards a society and landscape where conditions change quickly? Where we have to respond to changes? Is that not what agile is about? I think that still holds, and probably will continue to be true for a decade more or so.
