From the course: Agile Software Development: Creating an Agile Culture
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Efficiency versus responsiveness
From the course: Agile Software Development: Creating an Agile Culture
Efficiency versus responsiveness
- Right after this. - Doesn't sound bad. - Excuse me, everybody, I need you all to get me precise estimates and detailed Gantt charts. That way we can see what's coming and plan ahead. Okay, let's get to work. - I swear I spend more time planning and estimating than actually do writing code. Here we go again. - I hear you, same here. And we always throw out the plans because it changes anyway. - Right. - What else can we do? - When I went to business school, I learned how to create a really efficient organization. And then I was introduced to Agile and all of the things that worked for me in the past were suddenly my downfall, big strategic plans, Gantt charts, comprehensive documentation. All of this was seen as a bottleneck for delivering working software quickly. And honestly, the paradigm shift made my head spin and I just really struggled to let go of my waterfall ways. And I know I'm not alone in this but…
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