Very nice post from Martin proulx called Personne n’est interessé par l’agilité. (french)
Something that I would add to his article is that programmers themselves are NOT INTERESTED in agility, really !
For the sake of explaining my point, let’s consider two types of developers :
- Joe the programmer, who doesn’t care about code quality
- Scott, the more advanced developer, who works as hard as possible to produce good code quality
It’s pretty easy to realize that Joe doesn’t care about agility, scrum, and whatever, as he just works on whatever his hierarchy wants him to work on. Give him scrum, give him waterfall, he just won’t see a difference anyways. Code is about copy-pasting, and google is your friend !
Now, let’s see the case of Scott, the “elite” developer. He wants to focus on code. He likes code, he dreams about code, he wants to refactor, and he will do anything that allows him to produce better code. And usually, he just _hates_ politics. When Scott first heard of agility, what he thought was “yeahhhhhhh great!!! FINALLY something that allows me to just focus on my code”. yeah.. that was a few years ago.
That was true, at least for some time, because agility used to be about good developers trying to find a way to just work.
But now, things have changed. Agile is nearly mainstream, and most developers who claim they do agile development are just instances of Joe() who learnt how to create crappy, unmaintainable tests. The good developers have already moved to the latest bleeding edge methodology which is called “Common Sense Politic-Less Programming (CSPLP)“. That’s what allows them to get away from the religious debates brought by the scrum and agile masses. (they prefer technical religious debates.. but that’s another problem.. 
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Once again, what they want is to produce code, not debate forever about “how long should a daily scrum last”, “what kind of clown tricks could we do to build a better team”, or “how to teach the monkeys how to produce good code without affecting their ego “. Have you heard of google developers applying Scrum ? Have you heard of Linus torvalds bringing agile to improve Linux ? All of them just don’t care, because they already produce good, working software, that they release iteratively. And they did not need agile for that, they had their skills, and their common sense. It’s the developers who are producing the code, not the methodology ! And the successful companies have understood one thing : “if you hire the good guys, you’re gonna make great things”. It’s as simple as that.
To put it in a nutshell, nobody cares about agile and scrum. While the average joe doesn’t care or hasn’t even heard about it, the elite scott is skilled-enough to apply the CSPLP methodology, which stands for Common Sense Politics-Less Programming.
a great article pragmatic with argument