Average Joe said:

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My company is Agile, but I work in cybersecurity. So, all it means to me is that I have more worthless meetings where a lot of words are said and nothing gets done.

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torrid said:

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BigRobSA said:

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infinity ag said:

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Ag with kids said:

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We fixed the keg said:

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......too much time and energy went to serving the process and not the goal.

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Much like the dumbass 6 Sigma *****..

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I think 6 Sigma had levels of experts like in Karate or Taekwondo.... I don't remember what they are called, like "Sensei" or something.

The problem is when companies think they can "democratize" software to everyone. They basically want more labor so invent these ways to pull everyone in. In the early days it was for real smart people. Now any immigrant wife can join as a scrum master and enforce "rituals" and become a girlboss.

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Green belts, black belts....etc

Yeah, dumb as hell. All it does is make things less efficient, and time consuming. Which, funnily for the business world, means $$$$ spent/lost.

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I worked at the company that created six sigma. I fortunately was not there long enough to get a belt of any color. Current place has some sort of training nonsense where you become a "jedi".

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infinity ag said:

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infinity ag said:

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infinity ag said:

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Ag with kids said:

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We got sucked into Fagan Inspection training.

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My first job out of A&M called us into a meeting for "Fagan Inspection" training. This was in 1999. Some dude called Michael Fagan started this. What a waste of time. They made us sit through weeks of training. Fagan made a lot of money fooling companies.

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If you worked at a certain large company on the west side of FTW, you might have been in some of the same training I was in...

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My employer at that time was where most of this nonsense started. I never worked in FTW but the company at that time was so large and international that I am sure they had an FTW office. They did have an Austin office.

I am pretty sure it was the same training. Mike Fagan, the cult head was never there himself, but his minions would be there with their know-it-all attitudes. I remember even putting that on my resume in 2000 that I was "Fagan-certified"!

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Yeah. It was that same training.

Training sessions felt like they were trying to brainwash us...

I ALSO put it on my resume because I assumed a bunch of other companies were dumb enough to think it was worthwhile.

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Heh... I was new to the workforce and was clueless so I felt maybe this was valuable. I don't throw away these things so if I look, I am sure to find my certificate. And maybe a 1999 version of my resume. Soon after, it felt icky so I quickly removed it.

From wikipedia.



I wonder if we were at the same company. The only clue I will give is:

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Batman

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BigRobSA said:

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Average Joe said:

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My company is Agile, but I work in cybersecurity. So, all it means to me is that I have more worthless meetings where a lot of words are said and nothing gets done.

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So ..the antithesis of the meaning of "Agile"?

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