How did we go from the Agile Manifesto to stuff like this?
One of Steady’s “enemies” is performance theater. That manifests itself in many ways - meetings that have no tangible purpose, status updates that are largely about signaling.
But another is unnecessarily complex models, frameworks, and methodologies.
Perhaps it’s the nature of things. Perhaps there’s a lifecycle to philosophies.
1️⃣ Something gets unnecessarily complex, or dated, or ineffective.
2️⃣ A group of visionaries see a better, simpler way forward.
3️⃣ People adopt it, discovering nuance along the way. (Fine. To be expected.)
4️⃣ The charlatans appear. They take something simple and elegant and try to convince you it’s not. They make it needlessly complex and jargon-filled.
5️⃣ The cycle repeats itself.
This is my worst nightmare for Continuous Coordination.
I want the world to understand that working together doesn’t have to be impossible. It can be effortless and effective. And it just takes some simple principles and lots of practice to get there. (Some elegant tools help 😉.)
If I do my job right and Continuous Coordination becomes commonplace, I’m sure someone will show and try to make it more complex.
