Tag: Myths
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The 10 Most Common Myths About SAFe
SAFe (the Scaled Agile Framework) is one of the most deployed scaling frameworks in enterprise software development. It is also one of the most polarizing, and after twenty-five years of watching organizations adopt, adapt, abandon, and misapply scaling frameworks across industries ranging from embedded systems to financial platforms, the same misunderstandings keep surfacing: in kick-off…
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The 10 most common myths about Scrum@Scale
Scrum@Scale has a reputation problem: not because the framework is inherently flawed, but because most organizations approach it through the lens of what they wish it were, rather than what it actually is. Some organizations bolt it on as an organizational rebrand. In the worst case, it as a justification to hire more managers. A…
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The 10 Most Common Myths About the Waterfall Model
Everyone has an opinion about waterfall, and many of those opinions are objectively wrong. Not because waterfall is secretly great, because it isn’t, but because the myths that have grown around it on both sides obscure the real lessons. The waterfall defenders insist it works if only people would follow it properly. The agile evangelists…
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The 10 most common myths about agile software development
Agile software development has been declared a revolution, a religion, a silver bullet, an illusion and even a fraud. After more than two decades of widespread adoption, the myths have compounded faster than the practice has matured. Some myths are convenient, some are profitable. But as with most myths, they are dangerous. Agile is not…
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10 Common Myths About Kanban
Kanban has existed since the 1940s. Toyota built it on the factory floor, and it delivered. Decades later, software teams picked it up; and somewhere along the way, a lot of well-meaning people got it spectacularly wrong. Kanban is one of the most misunderstood tools in the agile toolbox. Not because it is complex, but…
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The 10 most common myths about Scrum
Scrum is one of the most widely adopted frameworks in software development. It is also one of the most widely misunderstood. After twenty-five years of agile practice, the same myths keep reappearing; in retrospectives, in job postings, in boardroom presentations, and in the quiet frustration of engineers wondering why their “Scrum” feels like something else…