A new approach to agile
I’m tired of hearing and reading about organisations that are “agile” when I know they aren’t. Agile is the trendy new (old) thing, and as Janusz Gorycki points out so well in his post titled Agile is Dead, the main reason we have AINO ( agile in name only ) is PHBs.
I’m propose we create a new agile methodology, one that takes from scrum and xp and lean and provides a loose framework of guidelines designed to be used by competent professionals rather than talked about by PHBs and certificate hungry consultants.
To ensure managers don’t want to be known for having implemented this new methodology, I propose we call it
“Getting Shit Done”
How many PHBs want to front up to their bosses and explain they need to spend money on “getting shit done” – it’s what they are paid to do anyway, isn’t it?
To drive away the money grubbing courseware consultants, the methodology should be simple and the first rule of this new methodology should be:
You can’t teach getting shit done, you can only learn it
Now if it were only as simple to do as it is to write 
