Being an agile developer has meant a lot to me. Over the years, I have tried to get those around me, more agile, more iteratively focused, more quality, result driven and so on, but I fear it is growing askew.
Agile is on the cusp of becoming so customer, service and result focused that quality, reuse, robustness and many other facets are getting less emphasis.
Agility can be a weakness too.
Everything is balance, and I can see two problems amounting.
1. More and more are 'Agile' without actually seriously changing their ways, or actually being agile.
2. Becoming so focused with being Agile, they turn full circle, back to all the clutter there once was.
A micro or macro manager will always have their different approaches, and Agile is not a fix for either. It is a careful balance between the two.
Tags: methodology, production, quality, management