• Heavybell@lemmy.world
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    7 months ago

    One of the bullet points of agile as I understand it is “do less documentation”. My previous boss was big on agile, and we were already barely documenting anything, so…

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      7 months ago

      Yea… That’s definitely one of the dumber points of Agile. Only wise if you’re writjng too much as is.

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        7 months ago

        That was my assumption, too. He also liked to seize on the idea that every sprint must produce something useable… Which I take to mean “give your client something to poke at and test, not a diagram” and he took to mean “every sprint must produce something useful to the client, that they can immediately put into production”.

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          7 months ago

          I mean, where else is a customer going to poke at a new feature but production? Can save even more time by doing all the testing there! Such a wise manager …