we aren't agile

it's been a year since i wrote the last post. my attempts at 'doing' agile in our team has failed.. a lot has been learnt.

don't get me wrong i'm upset about it. i think our current culture in the company wants to fail. the overriding push i get from above is, shhh don't stick your head out. don't make noise. don't share your opinion with anyone outside. don't speak up that you have a better way to do it. but when things are going wrong, why didn't you speak up?

guess what? i'm gonna do what i think is the right thing to do.. because after the dust settles i'll still be there to clean up the mess. probably not... more likely keep the mess contained and support it. until we can spend a couple more million dollars on a system that promises to fix our company and all of it's processes...

why doesn't our business fix itself. there must be a point at which someone somewhere raises the question to someone in our department to ask for involvement.. there must be a point at which early on we could allocate some resources to manage the project.. or at least guide them.

or is it just that we are looked down upon? look at the mess we are in and how we aren't able to fix it. so we let people crap all over our systems and dig the hole deeper.

these analogies are coming thick and fast recently. 'digging the hole deeper' i must say at least twice an hour...

is it bad that i'm airing dirty laundry... don't care. ill send this tomorrow to my bosses. it will be like all my previous complaints. deaf ears falling again.....

because i care. because i want better for my employer.. because the work we do is more important than the political bullshit that we have wade through to get anything done. it is. we need to provide better for our dependants.. our stakeholders need help. the world is in the shit at the moment. why do we have so many people in suits determining the outcomes of people in need... get the people with problems helping us spend the money.

they should all be hung for wasting this money. it's money taken from the mouths of children. of the homeless. it's money that has not benefited the needy in anyway. where's the accountability.