I have some availability in the forthcoming months
My main areas of expertise are:
Helping delivery teams become more productive
Improving communication between product and technology sides of businesses
Guiding pragmatic architecture and technology decisions to support future product strategies
I'd consider anything from a few hours per month consulting, to full-day training sessions and workshops, to joining your project for a long stretch part time.
#Agile is basically project management esotericism.
The smartest people have managed to build processes on top of it that work, the same way that some churches have worthwhile charities that do good work, but that doesn't mean the core of the methodology isn't mumbo jumbo.
(ah yeah, going for both developers AND the faithful today in one fell swoop, what am I even thinking?)
@kyonshi I know people who are very happy with it, so in the right environment it seems to do the magic. I have tried to get more agile in a traditional company for several years, and that really felt like Don Quixote and windmills.
every anti-agile post ever seems to go like "fuck #agile, we just need to communicate more effectively instead of blindly following this longwinded process"
"Perhaps we need a new "Agile Manifesto", or an addendum to the original one, that includes concrete examples of what counts as agile. That would make it easier to put agile into practice and make agile consistent across orgs."
No. As long as we stick to the intent of the manifesto and its principles, we are WAY ahead of the pack already. The principle of "long standing and self-organising teams" does not imply standards. What works for one team might not be ideal for another.
"Historically, the main goal of agile has been to increase software delivery speed and efficiency, not necessarily make developers' lives easier."
No it hasn't! Agile is about close collaboration with your users in order to build the right things in the right order. Then you can release the most important thing first.
It's about quality, any speed gains are a side effect thereof.