Why have I only just found this? Next time someone tells me they want to be an Agile coach - I’m sending them this and asking them to reconsider their life choices.
The video has a message. Most comments about the video miss the point of how difficult it is to change old ways. It takes time and a lot of effort to introduce new ideas and the video demonstrates some of the roadblocks that are likely to be encountered when trying to improve business processes in enterprise environments.
I think the man's repetition of his dream to run an agile project is just a take on humour which you completely missed. EDIT: I could be wrong, I am autistic and want to run an agile project.
This was not about running Agile projects, it was about the obstacles and the politics of corporate entities and their reluctance, inability to appreciate anything that is not "according to the book". That it particularly applies to Agile transformation is also true. The, "I want to run an Agile project.", statement being shorthand for the whole raft of painful explanation that is undertaken; the cartoon would have been several hours long to have inserted in full description of scrum / XP etc.
Oh, and the binary conversion module was written by a novice programmer coding in C. He was an ex-air force pilot, flew C5-A's, did the Ethiopia/Somali airlift circa 1992... It was his first shot at coding in C. I let him code for two weeks w/ a 21 days book. I then taught him about unit testing & coding small & he had a working FAST system after 2 more weeks. We fleshed it out bit by bit, hacking as we went. The VP laughed his ass off, I didn't even know WTF a bookkeeping sanity check was....
This is why the only way to set up Agile is in a separate business unit that has adjusted governance to act like a seperate business with all of these functions at arms length with the funding already allocated for outcomes, it's really that simple.
I appreciate that everyone, even the agile guy, sounds so mechanical and passion-free that even trying to do good work is a painful, laborious process from both sides.
I want to run an agile project No I want to run an agile project No I want to run an agile project I want to run an agile project I want to run an agile project
This rings very true. Dev team thinks the goal of the company is to promote the religion of Agile ironically not being flexible about implementing a flexible methodology.
I love this animation, it clearly shows the difference between Agile and Waterfall from my perspective. The best of them all for visual learners like me. I just love it
It was very maintainable. It was written first as pseudocode, with a RAD dbms toolset. It was maintained by several subsequent developers & even ported into C++. We discovered that we could develop more quickly if we would pseudocode an entire process narrative & then drill down into the stack from there. We abstracted better, we refactored better, & the systems didn't break.
Ja, Ja," but I write great code by myself", funny, we all think we do until we are reviewed by others, then we figure out that we can always learn and improve. Good video.
This video speaks the truth. Agile may not be the best solution for every situation, but works excedingly well for todays generation of SaaS. Why should it be so dificult to do(implement) the right thing? Three cheers for all those project leaders who work towards building better software development environments.
I've been involved with a few companies that run Agile projects relatively succesful. However, I just can't stand them from an architectural perspective. Through out time the architecture starts to suffer and becomes increasingly complex. This is becuase most companies don't want to spend the right time to refactor a set of complex constructs that spand beyound 1 or 2 sprints.
Just have to love this one... I just laughed and laughed. But not sure my tears were from laughing or from the actual big-company-process real-life experiences :-) Love It !
The video makes good points but Agile is like the Java hype 12 years ago. They were going to save the world, re-invent application development, save money, etc. The hype never lived up to reality with Java and it never will with Agile.
Long time ago I sat down & wrote a data warehouse/mart (circa 1997). Did it in 3 months, by myself, had it cranking thru 1 GB/day of phone log data for traffic analysis, etc. It had to crank through mounds of binary switch, then converted ASCII, data on an already existing 486 Win NT4 box w/ RAID5 SCSI. Did it in 16bit FoxPro, on a $25,000 budget. Then the IT Dept showed up. They brought in Oracle & a "PLAN." They shat $2 million down the hole trying to create the same thing & it didn't work.
0:53 boss man needs to assign a deputy to engage with the agile project dev team every day & bring a long a nice chunk of end users. I think THIS SATIRE IS GONNA BORE ME.
@codematrix This is my problem with the whole "agile development". One needs time to design and think about the architecture of the whole system, then you can get to development. Also, why deliver untested code to customers? It works in some cases, but not all projects lend themselves to breaking up in smaller tasks that you can deliver tested every 2 weeks or so. Anyway, in this video the guy isn't making his argument convincing "I want to" is hardly good rationale.
Good video, but it isn't show agile performances . Good if compared with another process model and show how the agile is better than ordinary process. By the way these sounds reminds me the sw "Talk it". I think you typed words on it and click "talk it button" to play :)
8:01 I don't think my man should be trying to bottom-up this shit. if he's really going to help the organization, he should have the approval of someone higher up the food chain. someone in top-level management needs to send out a signal to "give the agile guy a little room to operate". this is excruciating.
You sir, must be a relic of the Cobal generation. I have been on Agile projects for almost a decade and have yet to have a failed project. I have worked with many contractors who used waterfall, and all but one of those projects failed! Please explain how getting itterations to the customers sooner causes failure. The way I see it, it develops a far superior product because the team is able to actually react to change, vs. delivering a useless brick. If it's so bad, why does MS use it?
Pair programming is the single-most irritating element of "agile" methodologies; it simply seems like a way to hold back the exceptional programmers by tying them down with the responsibilities of teaching others and pissing them off at the same time.
Pair programming is for management - it's so that no dev can be irreplaceable, or insert trapdoors in the code. If someone gets too expensive, you can just fire them - you always have a drop-in replacement.
Agile can actively manage risks and simultaneously add value to the business while completely meeting the requirements of regulators, auditors and agents of control. What amazes me is that this way of thinking is as unbalanced in approach as bureaucratic nonsense. This robot keeps stating that he "understands" needs that he constantly tries to avoid with exemptions and conversations without ever taking the time to show that the concerns of the business as a whole will be met. Good job tangential monotone animation....
I work for State Government, but the agile barriers I've encountered appear from this video to be frighteningly universal. The whole crew should jump in a barrel and float to their waterfall.
In the end, the project manager is taken away to an asylum where he continues to tell the inmates, "I want to run an agile project."
that comment nearly killed me
An all-time classic. Nothing has been closer to my professional life than this video.
Why have I only just found this? Next time someone tells me they want to be an Agile coach - I’m sending them this and asking them to reconsider their life choices.
The video has a message. Most comments about the video miss the point of how difficult it is to change old ways. It takes time and a lot of effort to introduce new ideas and the video demonstrates some of the roadblocks that are likely to be encountered when trying to improve business processes in enterprise environments.
I think the man's repetition of his dream to run an agile project is just a take on humour which you completely missed. EDIT: I could be wrong, I am autistic and want to run an agile project.
New ideas and change are not necessarily helpful.
Agile turns create people into factory workers and creates an aggressive atmosphere.
So much truth. Everyone in the modern work world should watch. Worth it!!
#agil #agile
Take a shot every time he says: "I want to run an agile project"
We'd be dead before the video finishes
Simply a game that cannot be won
This was not about running Agile projects, it was about the obstacles and the politics of corporate entities and their reluctance, inability to appreciate anything that is not "according to the book". That it particularly applies to Agile transformation is also true.
The, "I want to run an Agile project.", statement being shorthand for the whole raft of painful explanation that is undertaken; the cartoon would have been several hours long to have inserted in full description of scrum / XP etc.
Oh, and the binary conversion module was written by a novice programmer coding in C. He was an ex-air force pilot, flew C5-A's, did the Ethiopia/Somali airlift circa 1992... It was his first shot at coding in C. I let him code for two weeks w/ a 21 days book. I then taught him about unit testing & coding small & he had a working FAST system after 2 more weeks. We fleshed it out bit by bit, hacking as we went. The VP laughed his ass off, I didn't even know WTF a bookkeeping sanity check was....
An excellent presentation on the Agile method of Business Analysis! Thank you for sharing.
This is why the only way to set up Agile is in a separate business unit that has adjusted governance to act like a seperate business with all of these functions at arms length with the funding already allocated for outcomes, it's really that simple.
i dont know if this is suppposed to be funny butI'm sat here in tears LOLLOLLOL
This video lives in my head rent free
This video was relevant 100 years ago .. and will still be relevant 100 years from now
I appreciate that everyone, even the agile guy, sounds so mechanical and passion-free that even trying to do good work is a painful, laborious process from both sides.
Excellent lesson in the challenges of implementing agile in the context of organizational policies and practices which assume a waterall approach.
Great work Julian, love the messaging behind this, and great animation to bring it to life as well. Looking forward to further episodes.
This is the most accurate documentary I've ever seen :D
Something tells me this guy wants to run an agile project
This is actually hysterical... "I WANT TO RUN AN AGILE PROJECT!" lol
I want to run an agile project
No I want to run an agile project
No I want to run an agile project
I want to run an agile project
I want to run an agile project
haha, exactly. That is the best way to get agile of the ground. LOL
😂
This rings very true. Dev team thinks the goal of the company is to promote the religion of Agile ironically not being flexible about implementing a flexible methodology.
I love this animation, it clearly shows the difference between Agile and Waterfall from my perspective. The best of them all for visual learners like me. I just love it
It was very maintainable. It was written first as pseudocode, with a RAD dbms toolset. It was maintained by several subsequent developers & even ported into C++.
We discovered that we could develop more quickly if we would pseudocode an entire process narrative & then drill down into the stack from there.
We abstracted better, we refactored better, & the systems didn't break.
I really WANTED to run an Agile project! But it bombed because everyone was unable to be flexible enough to adapt to it.
haha this is fuckin' awesome.
"No...I want to run an..."
hahaha made my day
"No, I want to run an agile project!" His long process to complete his request to run an agile project is often too true in the workplace.
Ja, Ja," but I write great code by myself", funny, we all think we do until we are reviewed by others, then we figure out that we can always learn and improve. Good video.
Great going Julian and Carson.
Carson, can't wait for the next "episode". you should do one on the Product Owner,etc..
HAHAHAHA sooo hilarious! thanks for explaining this topic in such an oddly humorous way!
Carson, this is too good and very very realistic
This video speaks the truth. Agile may not be the best solution for every situation, but works excedingly well for todays generation of SaaS.
Why should it be so dificult to do(implement) the right thing?
Three cheers for all those project leaders who work towards building better software development environments.
Classic but still accurate. Only the words change a bit.
Brilliant and true. Just goes to show that you need buy in from all areas with an organization before you can implement Agile.
Hilarious. The ending line summarizes what many of us may have experienced, "but, I want to run an Agile project..."
legend says he still wants to run an agile project to this day.
is there a follow up video where the PM goes postal ? :)
awesome animation.. sweet message!
NO!! I WANT TO RUN AN AGILE PROJECT! BUT, I WANT TO RUN AN AGILE PROJECT! SO, I WANT TO RUN AN AGILE PROJECT!
Excellent Video.Thanks
I've been involved with a few companies that run Agile projects relatively succesful. However, I just can't stand them from an architectural perspective. Through out time the architecture starts to suffer and becomes increasingly complex. This is becuase most companies don't want to spend the right time to refactor a set of complex constructs that spand beyound 1 or 2 sprints.
Loved it! ))
The "Agile Project man" occasionally sounds like Leonard Nimoy! ))
I want to build an agile pineapple.
Just have to love this one... I just laughed and laughed. But not sure my tears were from laughing or from the actual big-company-process real-life experiences :-) Love It !
very good example!
this is great - I laughed out loud about the SAS 70 controls.
This is a great video! Is there a way to get this video sped up so that I can present it to my project management class?
In the "settings" of the video (right down corner in full screen) you can set playing speed
The video makes good points but Agile is like the Java hype 12 years ago. They were going to save the world, re-invent application development, save money, etc.
The hype never lived up to reality with Java and it never will with Agile.
NO! I want to run an Agile project foolish Mortal!!!!
Long time ago I sat down & wrote a data warehouse/mart (circa 1997). Did it in 3 months, by myself, had it cranking thru 1 GB/day of phone log data for traffic analysis, etc. It had to crank through mounds of binary switch, then converted ASCII, data on an already existing 486 Win NT4 box w/ RAID5 SCSI. Did it in 16bit FoxPro, on a $25,000 budget.
Then the IT Dept showed up. They brought in Oracle & a "PLAN." They shat $2 million down the hole trying to create the same thing & it didn't work.
I want to run an Agile project-- I heard this statement at least a 100 times :-D
this could be a southpark episode
LOL, that was also my thought. When you don't watch the video, but only listen to the audio then you get this impression.
You should make a club mix song using this video and... "I WANT TO RUN AN AGILE PROJECT"
0:53 boss man needs to assign a deputy to engage with the agile project dev team every day & bring a long a nice chunk of end users. I think THIS SATIRE IS GONNA BORE ME.
Good job man...
Place funny one-liner that makes me look like I'm an agile developer here.
I want to run an agile project
"I don't have any more time for you today." Where have I heard that one before?
but I want to run an agile project! :)
@saadatorama Yes, every time I hear him say "I want to run an agile project", I want to reply "and I want to bring my cat to work".
@codematrix This is my problem with the whole "agile development". One needs time to design and think about the architecture of the whole system, then you can get to development. Also, why deliver untested code to customers? It works in some cases, but not all projects lend themselves to breaking up in smaller tasks that you can deliver tested every 2 weeks or so. Anyway, in this video the guy isn't making his argument convincing "I want to" is hardly good rationale.
wait what does he want to run?
Good video, but it isn't show agile performances . Good if compared with another process model and show how the agile is better than ordinary process. By the way these sounds reminds me the sw "Talk it". I think you typed words on it and click "talk it button" to play :)
8:01 I don't think my man should be trying to bottom-up this shit. if he's really going to help the organization, he should have the approval of someone higher up the food chain. someone in top-level management needs to send out a signal to "give the agile guy a little room to operate". this is excruciating.
this agile guy is awesome!
Excellent!
*in disappointed voice* Oh.... You're the "agile guy"..... =(
Is your stapler a stakeholder?
You sir, must be a relic of the Cobal generation. I have been on Agile projects for almost a decade and have yet to have a failed project. I have worked with many contractors who used waterfall, and all but one of those projects failed! Please explain how getting itterations to the customers sooner causes failure. The way I see it, it develops a far superior product because the team is able to actually react to change, vs. delivering a useless brick. If it's so bad, why does MS use it?
You are now unable to hear "I want to run an Agile Project" as a normal person.
welcome to my life.
pls pls pls let him run an agile project
I have had all of these experiences but release management is by far the worst
I want to run an agile project.
Oh so you're the agile guy? LMAO!
BUT I WANT TO RUN AN AGILE PROJECT
2:50 get a new client buddy idk wow. also, this is starting to sound like a UK problem
You need to pair with the bloke who smells like an ashtray.
Hi. I want to run an Agile Project......but I want to run an Agile project.
No, I want to run an agile project...
story of life
in a real world, he is never going to get to "run an ajile project" by saying 'i want to run an agile project's
So that's all I have to do?
perfect
Pair programming is the single-most irritating element of "agile" methodologies; it simply seems like a way to hold back the exceptional programmers by tying them down with the responsibilities of teaching others and pissing them off at the same time.
Pair programming is for management - it's so that no dev can be irreplaceable, or insert trapdoors in the code. If someone gets too expensive, you can just fire them - you always have a drop-in replacement.
I don't want to run an agile project...
Agile can actively manage risks and simultaneously add value to the business while completely meeting the requirements of regulators, auditors and agents of control. What amazes me is that this way of thinking is as unbalanced in approach as bureaucratic nonsense. This robot keeps stating that he "understands" needs that he constantly tries to avoid with exemptions and conversations without ever taking the time to show that the concerns of the business as a whole will be met. Good job tangential monotone animation....
But I want to run an Agile project,
hahahahhahaahhaha --- i want to run an agile project
What program was used to develop this animation?
I WANT TO RUN AN AGILE PROJECT!
start with the bad features of the current product. If end users would like to see some parts of their UI improved, you can get buy in. ugghh
VERY GOOD, I want to run an agile project, to!
I work for State Government, but the agile barriers I've encountered appear from this video to be frighteningly universal. The whole crew should jump in a barrel and float to their waterfall.
lol they make the guy sound like a total bonehead "I want to run an agile project" hahahaha
Good luck with waterfall
L O L 20 points, value from this video delivered to me, the consumer
and hey do the Product owner role right - this isn't how it works at all....
I am a robot, do what I say!
paired programming doesn't work - skip "XP" and work with SCRUM not paired development.