Dave Nicolette

Remember that traditional Agile/XP/etc practices assume a homogeneous environment. Indeed, the communication and mentorship patterns they rest on can only emerge organically from homogeneity. (And then come to @PearConf to rant about this with meeeeeee.)

Face-to-face communication and avoiding writing anything down has been used by tyrants and criminals for milennia to avoid dissemination of information. So lets use it when designing complicated software.

I was skeptical, but this point is devastating. Nothing written leaves a lot of room for gaslighting and assorted power games, which always skew towards privilege.

The worst #agile gaslighters are selective about what’s written down. They’ll want everything you do painstakingly documented in JIRA (so they can skewer you with it later) but they fall back on “we’re agile—lightweight process” when you ask that their actions leave a paper trail

You're aware that such behavior is in total contradiction to the agile manifesto?

And yet so intrinsic to scenarios with up/down power dynamics, which circles right back to @sarahmei ‘s point: agile/XP in stock form is broken for diverse/heterogeneous teams.

Caveat white dude speaking... I recognized agile as a power move by developers immediately upon first hearing about it. But it took this thread to point out how it only moves power between management and esteemed devs.