Why our company is failing at Agile
So on Tuesday and Wednesday of this week I was bombarded with questions concerning a project we worked on for inclusion in the release we are about to ship. (Our company has to ship our product in testable releases to our clients due to regulations.) The people asking the questions attended every design session and demo, but now 5 months after the work is complete they are asking detailed questions about the functionality. Why? Because now they need to update the release documentation. Why these actions were not done at the time of the project is a mystery to me. This is one of those processes where the people involved have not adjusted their thinking away from the Waterfall project / release model to our current Agile-ish model. The documentation was not updated in parallel with the development, but instead is now being updated now that they are finalizing the release and it is 'time' to update the documentation. So I spend many hours going back over what we implemented to answer these questions, and in one case simply demo'd the functionality as it exists in the product. Waste. Of. Time.
posted by MrPopman @ 8:40 AM
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