Life has not been that rosy with Agile by Rahul Sudame
Channel: OGuild
Date: 04/07/2015

Rahul Sudame, an Agile Program Manager with 15+ years of experience.  Rahul works as Account Manager at Persistent Systems. He is a Senior Management Professional and Agile expert.  

In this video, Rahul talks on “Life has not been that rosy with Agile - Practical experiences!” 

This session covers challenges observed due to nature of the project, customer-vendor engagement model, application of processes, attitude of people rolling out agile, unrealistic expectations, conflict in roles and responsibilities. It would also highlight challenges introduced to some of the roles (like Project/QA Manager/Manual Tester etc.) in Agile environment and impact on billing / project contracts / SOW etc.

Agile - Theory vs. Practice
The main reason many efforts to go agile fail is because practitioners tend to forget that the manifesto is a statement of utopian ideals to aspire to. Any prescriptive practices that come out of it like Scrum and Kanban are simply practical attempts to stride towards this ideal however, due to the nature of the principle, none of these practices can ever actually get to the ideal. Some get nearer than others, but absolute agility can never be achieved in practice.