> critical of projects at the design stage but everyone is obligated to commit to the project once it starts to be implemented
Design phase? Commitments that can't be changed on a sprint-by-sprint basis? That's not very Agile. /s
The worst offenders are those that can't be bothered to participate in the design process but somehow feel justified in raising concerns many months later, at the 11th hour. I've had to say "sorry, decisions are made by those that show up" more than once in my career. You can't get anything done if every decision is up for re-litigation whenever a senior dev gets a bug up their ass.
And part of the problem is Agile-Scrum since there is no design phase in which these decision are made explicit. Decisions are scattered everywhere if they're documented at all. And they're often decided in the sprint planning phase where everything is rushed to meet the arbitrary sprint deadline and where you have the least amount of empirical data to make high-quality decisions. So it's no wonder that teams struggle with commitment - under Agile, they barely known what they've committed to.
Design phase? Commitments that can't be changed on a sprint-by-sprint basis? That's not very Agile. /s
The worst offenders are those that can't be bothered to participate in the design process but somehow feel justified in raising concerns many months later, at the 11th hour. I've had to say "sorry, decisions are made by those that show up" more than once in my career. You can't get anything done if every decision is up for re-litigation whenever a senior dev gets a bug up their ass.
And part of the problem is Agile-Scrum since there is no design phase in which these decision are made explicit. Decisions are scattered everywhere if they're documented at all. And they're often decided in the sprint planning phase where everything is rushed to meet the arbitrary sprint deadline and where you have the least amount of empirical data to make high-quality decisions. So it's no wonder that teams struggle with commitment - under Agile, they barely known what they've committed to.