Comments by "Michael Nurse" (@michaelnurse9089) on "Is AGILE Better Than KANBAN?" video.

  1. I think you are missing the whole point. Overloading employees is a discussion separate from whether you plan your work 'top-down or bottom up' which is what the whole agile/kanban/waterfall discussion is all about. Of course, the get conflated because planning can be come a tool of corporate dysfunction. Hard scientific evidence shows that after a couple hours employees start to actively harm results by just being there. Errors, boredom, resentment, waiting for info/meetings. If one is willing to throw away your life by working for Evil Corp then no amount of agile/kanban/waterfall is going to save you from its clutches.
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  2. "developers to compete" Here is the problem. If you hire competitive types they will spent their efforts destroying their colleagues and then jump ship to your competitor for 10% pay increase. Rather hire people with a collaborative mindset. Aside: Read about the experiment when scientists wanted to breed the best chickens by selecting only the strongest most competitive chickens. End result was chickens who just killed other chickens on sight and battery productivity dropped to zero.
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