Marlena Compton on Twitter: "I found a startup, on the other side of the world, doing ALL the agile. This is where the facade of agile began to crack. Maybe I'll thread about it tomorrow. In the meantime, here is... @sarahmei expressing her views on Agile... #Agile2019 https://t.co/sgCStdbd7e"

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Marlena Compton‏ @marlenac Aug 5

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Today is the first day of the big agile conference. My feelings are so mixed about agile. On the one hand, I've seen some shit hit the fan, excuses be made for bad behavior... #Agile2019

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Marlena Compton‏ @marlenac Aug 5

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and the same general misogyny that is a problem with all of tech. OTOH there are some strands in there that still ring true. How did I even find agile at all? Much less become such a strong advocate for it for so long? When I first came across it, I was... #Agile2019

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Marlena Compton‏ @marlenac Aug 5

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Working in a cubicle and going to school part time. Officially, my company was doing waterfall. Something I've learned about scaling orgs is that there *has* to be a way to give people a playbook and, waterfall, however crap it was, waterfall is what we had.HOWEVER.. #Agile2019pic.twitter.com/roIXcmJvqH

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Marlena Compton‏ @marlenac Aug 5

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I found my way into a small pocket of the company where "officially" we were doing waterfall like everyone else, but, in reality, we all worked together pretty closely. At the same time, I was going to school, at night, to get a Masters in Software Engineering.... #Agile2019pic.twitter.com/QrZFTjDVHc

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Marlena Compton‏ @marlenac Aug 5

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When I got to Project Management class, our teacher made us do a project with any software process we wanted, but we had to describe what it was. I chose Agile and it was MINDBLOWING... #Agile2019

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Marlena Compton‏ @marlenac Aug 5

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To be sure, I spent the better part of a day setting up the stories and the burndown chart, but after that, it was really easy to track where we were and to see what was happening. I could see... #Agile2019pic.twitter.com/qBTjNK7WS3

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Marlena Compton‏ @marlenac Aug 5

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How this mapped to what was going on at work. For example, whenever I had a huge requirements document dumped on me, I would immediately break the requirements up into tiny pieces and our team would focus on those. Here's the twist in the plot. I was working for... #Agile2019

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Marlena Compton‏ @marlenac Aug 5

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Equifax... #Agile2019pic.twitter.com/qeQsrJZ0dX

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Marlena Compton‏ @marlenac Aug 5

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I could do infinite threads on how awful and racist it is as a company. Let's just say that at the end of the 7 years, I had seen enough. Even though I had found a very comfy pocket deep in the heart of the evil empire, I was ready to bail... #Agile2019pic.twitter.com/guPIhcPWwZ

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Marlena Compton‏ @marlenac Aug 5

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I found a startup, on the other side of the world, doing ALL the agile. This is where the facade of agile began to crack. Maybe I'll thread about it tomorrow. In the meantime, here is... @sarahmei expressing her views on Agile... #Agile2019https://youtu.be/YL-6RCTywbc