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The place I work at recently grew and have adopted this agile scrum thing. We had a course that prepared us for it, but if I'm being honest, I just don't get it. I mean breaking a feature down into smaller pieces, sure I guess that helps. MVP, sure I understand although however you explain it to the client, they always freak out when they use it for the first time. I guess this means they only said they understood when they didn't really. But then there are the meetings and they waffle on about numbers and improving performance. I mean, what am I supposed to do about that? Give me a task and I will try to understand it and do it in a timely manner. That's all I can give you. What exactly is it that you want?



Here is the trick with agile. Everyone involved needs to be working that way for it to have any chance of success.

Even the client needs to be agile. Otherwise it is just waterfall with extra-steps




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