Youtube hearted comments of Andrea Laforgia (@andrealaforgia).

  1. "There is no manager in the world...", "Agile should be reconsidered"... okay, calm down :) Team Topologies has been written based on what works in the real world. I have worked in at least three companies where we had enablement teams and followed the models suggested in the book and it worked really well. My current company is also adopting that model. I am working in the Developer Experience team. I think you must have worked with some crappy managers (not uncommon) that have seriously burned you out, and that's a shame. Also, Agile is not Scrum. You can work in agile ways without sprints and story points. In fact, it's advisable, in my opinion, that teams do so. It's not Agile that needs to be reconsidered; what needs to be fixed is the "Agile theatre" in so many companies.
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  2. Not really. Wikipedia defines engineering as “Engineering is the use of scientific principles to design and build machines, structures, and other items, including bridges, tunnels, roads, vehicles, and buildings”. If you extend that to software, nothing dictates that you should be following a waterfall model.
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  3. Continuous Delivery is the material foundation of agility. Working agilely means collaborating with the customer by releasing valuable working software as frequently as possible, in continuous small batches. The needs of the customer are continuously evaluated and wasting the customer’s budget on potentially useless features is avoided. The tools/methods here are those that enable us to satisfy our customers via early and continuous delivery of valuable software. Do you know a better way of working?
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