It has been a while since my last post. My head has been in the cloud, literally and figuratively.

Here are a few lessons I have learned:

1. No matter how amazing of a development team you have, management can run entire projects into ground by not providing support, direction, or not having the ability to make decisions.
2. Assigning the same project to two teams under the same management is not a healthy or productive way of creating motivation or progress.
3. Don’t make two peer teams decide whose work is better. You need a tie breaker and if you cannot be the tie breaker, refer to item 2. Don’t create this situation in the first place.
4. Agile does not work for everything as much as we want it. Go ahead and debate that agile is not implemented correctly in most cases… For a second, let’s assume you are right. In that case, why do we keep using something that is so hard to implement and is misused so frequently? Maybe we need something else or nothing at all.
5. Calling a team agile and holding daily calls does not turn the team or their work agile.
6. What’s worse than waterfall? Traversing waterfalls with agility with no real consumer waiting at the end.