I find this topic really fascinating and challenging - and echo your concerns, Kevin.
I'm thinking about this from the programmatic perspective as well. There are interesting non-profit impact frameworks (logic models) that connect activities and outputs to impact, but they generally come from a waterfall approach. I think this is part of what has made it hard for the software teams (agile) to work with the community teams (waterfall), at least in my small corner of the world. I think there are ways to marry the two approaches and stay focused on impact if we treat activities and outputs as experiments (using agile) to try to affect that change/impact. It means that we have to make space for reflection throughout the experiment, but especially at the end, and be honest about if what we're doing has the impact we're after as well as what we learned along the way. On Thu, Aug 31, 2017 at 4:53 PM, Jeroen De Dauw <jeroended...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hey, > > Thanks for sharing this nice article! I will be forewarning it to my > colleagues :) > > > Using Agile development with waterfall goals turns teams into "feature > factories" with no focus on delivering value. > > I've also seen people discuss such situations using the term Water Scrum > Fall. > > PS: I recently read "Leading Lean Software Development" which is mentioned > and quoted from in the "Transcend the Feature Factory" article. My > highlights are available at https://www.goodreads.com/note > s/18897951-leading-lean-software-development/16821921-jeroen-de-dauw > > Cheers > > -- > Jeroen De Dauw | https://entropywins.wtf | https://keybase.io/jeroendedauw > Software craftsmanship advocate | Developer at Wikimedia Germany > ~=[,,_,,]:3 > > _______________________________________________ > teampractices mailing list > teampractices@lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/teampractices > > -- *Anne Gomez* // Senior Program Manager, New Readers <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/New_Readers> https://wikimediafoundation.org/ *Imagine a world in which every single human being can freely share in the sum of all knowledge. That's our commitment. Donate <http://donate.wikimedia.org>. *
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