By Yaniv Yehuda
In a recent article on Forbes, Jason Bloomberg makes the point that despite technology typically refreshing every three years or so, Agile is still the dominant method used to develop software. Bloomberg goes on to list some major issues with Agile that have come up over the years.
- Lack of focus on software architecture
- Emphasis on one-off software projects as opposed to building reusable code,
- Positioning the software development team as a self-contained group, as opposed to participants in a broader collaborative effort.
- Agile calls for self-organizing teams, but there remains no clear understanding of how best to self-organize.
- Agile calls for the stakeholder or customer to be an active part of the team – but stakeholders have always resisted this participation, and when they do join the Agile team, they struggle with their role.
Despite Agile’s shortcomings, there are few that would suggest moving back to waterfall. Instead many are turning to Lean, which according to Bloomberg, is an outgrowth of the Lean Manufacturing movement that Toyota championed in the 1950s. Applied to software development, Lean focuses on eliminating any activity that doesn’t add value right away, and emphasizes how the team operates as a whole.
Read the entire article at http://www.dbmaestro.com/2015/12/5-issues-with-agile-and-whats-next/
