This Is Not Agile
The loop feels sophisticated, but it is just two steps drawn in a fancy way. If we stretch it, we have one old friend: The waterfall.
I probably do not need to say this, right? There is something wrong with Agile, and you have suffered it. I have seen plenty of articles on Medium about it. Some saying how you should do it, others saying what you shouldn’t do, and many others saying that you should not do Agile at all. The problem is that Agile is more of a mindset rather just a recipe, and that is difficult to communicate. Instead, this time, in this article, I will share some basics insights to help you understand what Agile truly aims for, by showing what the drawings are really depicting, and I will provide some few more resources.
This is the drawing from the story image, the one that I am telling you that it is not Agile. Yet, if you do a quick search on Google images, you will find a lot of figures just like this one.
Well, they are all wrong.
Some terminology varies; sometimes testing is also in the loop, and sometimes is deployment instead of verification —however, the…
