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Ask HN: What non-agile process (or variant of it) are you using at your work?

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So we're doing Agile at work - Scrums, Sprints, stand-ups, - the whole lot.

I'm not here to rant, since rant has already been done before. The best example of the rant was this one

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5406384

With which I can't help agreeing.

Apart from strictly following the agile process, I'd like to know what different types of "processes" you guys are using. Do you like it as a developer? If yes, care to share? Why is it working? (or not)?

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After my team made a half-hearted attempt to adopt something vaguely resembling agile scrum, I suggested we simplify by just using a Trello kanban board.

The ease of adoption makes it a good way to just get started, which is what we needed.

My take is that the success of any workplace process is more a matter of trust than methodology. And the placement of that trust has to be in the organization. Agile or waterfall or whatever, it doesn't matter if the organization doesn't engender the trust of the team members. Your comments suggest that that's the case here. Changing the process without changing cultural and structural dynamics in the workplace is going to be an empty exercise.

Good luck.

Just my take here.

Agile and other systems exist to remove trust from the equation. If you want a consistent result, you remove all of the variables that cause inconsistency. Trust is one of those things that can't be put on a spreadsheet. The cost of a software feature can be quantified through a process that filters out uncertainty and intangibles.

I wasn't clear.

Trust is an element of workplace culture not production procedure. A lack of trust will manifest itself as a lack of faith in production procedures. My thesis is that that lack of faith is independent of the feature set of whatever procedure is currently implemented be it agile, waterfall, kanban, or clusterfuck.

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