If it works, do it!
May 19th, 2009
I have recently read about a Post-Agile Manifesto by Jason Gorman. Jason said that Post-Agilism is simply doing what works for you. And he explain that in this ideas:
- If it Works, do it!
- If it Works, do it! It woks
- If it seems to Work,do it! It probably woks
- If it seems to Work, do it! It probably woks (and might work again)
Really it is not a manifesto, there aren’t a group or association investigating and promoting that. So if it isn’t a manifesto… What it is? It’s a phenomenon around the world where people who have worked with different agile methodologies and have decided to move on.
Investigating a bit more about this topic I found a Post-Agilism FAQ at Jonathan Kohl’s blog which said:
Post-Agilism is:
- a growing movement of former Agilists who have moved beyond Agile methods, using a wide variety of software development tools and methodologies in their work.
- an emerging era. Now that the Agile movement has moved to the mainstream, what’s next?
Some people think that the post-agilism is a fallacy, and that the people who consider part of this group are anti-agilist and “process mash up”. In this same article Kohl explain why they consider that this accusations are false.
Personally, I use Scrum and consider that the failure of agile methodologies are because people try to change and mix methodologies to adapt it to their necessities.
What do you think?