if Fiserv was truly adapting to more Agile ways of working, then a lot of the toxic workplace issues people complain about here would not be happening. Just saying.
Do you agree with this? I only somewhat agree. Agile also has its shortcomings.
[I pulled the post from @1pey+1ex8KyRW]
COBOL and Agile do not mix well.
The development teams might be agile. But it is irrelevant because everything around the team is hard waterfall. We can't provide feedback that the system is broken.
Maybe they should hire more coaches for the team. Maybe that would fix the problem which is not with the team?
The #1 obstacles to implementing agile are clueless, recalcitrant managers. I once worked on a team where we did KANBAN. The way we did it was waterfall.
I spoke up at a meeting to my manager. I said we do waterfall, he cut me off, shut me down and said in his heavy Indian accent NO WE DO KANBAN AGILE! I said "right, we do all the requirements, then all the development, then all the testing, and then get mad at the BA when we find defects and gaps. Agile!"
If you can't tell, we didn't get along.
Now, five years later, that guy is a very successful director, and still at Fiserv. When directors of software development think that requirements->development->testing->panic->finger pointing is Agile, you begin to see the problem.
Fiserv will never be Agile.
If they were truly agile they wouldn't have installed sapience to log everything you do.
It's hard to micromanage Agile is an understatement. The goal of Agile is to eventually have self-managed teams. Seems like that is something that goes against the current culture at Fiserv. They will be Agile in name only.
+1 @tjb
Agile continues to be relentlessly slammed down our throats like it is the second coming. It is a huge waste of money. They have brought in consultants many times over the years and nothing ever changes. They're literally trying to compensate for the talent bleed by hiring 10 paper pushers per software engineer, and then piling on a bunch of consultants to breath down everyone's necks.
Fiserv has been trying to be agile for 10 years with little success. It’s hard to micro manage agile. Millions spent on worthless consultants though