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Does that surprise me? Not at all. "Agile" was never about making programming better. It was a management buzzword from the start.
We once had a manager who came to me with the serious idea "to make the development process agile". He had heard of this in a discussion with managers from other companies. The problem? I'm the only person in this department. I program everything alone. How the F should I turn my processes "agile"?
Work for two weeks, take two weeks off to think for a bit, work for two weeks. Rinse and repeat. That's what agile is, right?
I think he wanted it more like Product Owner, Scrum Master, Architect, Stakeholder, New product development, Tester, Integrator, Team member, Agile architect, Agile Coach, Developer, Team lead, Technical expert, Product Designer, Business Analyst, Programmer, and Specialist for at least eight hours a day in each role...