![]() I remember being told that it doesn't matter if everything has to be done twice, because the dev's were a third of the price. This started, I believe a downward spiral in maturity in IT in general. This morphed into the developers who did the heavy lifting in IT being thought of as commodities and the offshore model was born and became popular. com bubble burst just after the year 2000, in HBR (Harvard Business Review) someone wrote an article declaring that IT was a commodity without much differentiation that needed to be treated as expense to be controlled. Go play Agile games in your coaching kindergarten and then talk to your children about your exciting day. They may not be buried under layers of managers, as they were in the waterfall model, but they nevertheless have internalized the business’s priorities as their own. I then began to think about the ways in which Agile encourages developers to see themselves as cogs in a machine. The notion that a competent professional would need to justify his work every day, in tiny units, was absurd to her. ![]() I encountered a turning point while describing a standup meeting to my aunt, a lawyer. Treating adults like children became an industry norm.ĭespite this flexibility in its definition, many developers have lost faith in the idea of Agile. Since GOOG was apparently successful many other companies copied Google's kindergarten culture. This is probably why Munger and Buffett call it a kindergarten. In other words, everything is taken care of by Alphabet. Once the best engineers join the company, they have maximum amount of flexibility and enjoy tremendous benefits such as a free gym, snacks, diverse on-site restaurants and much more. As a result, it has always had a very high win-rate when recruiting talent. To attract the best talent, the company created the unconventional decentralized atmosphere and offered the highest compensation package in the industry. Having the best talent is key to Alphabet's business model. We have also emphasized an atmosphere of creativity and challenge, which has helped us provide unbiased, accurate and free access to information for those who rely on us around the world.” Throughout Google's evolution as a privately held company, we have managed Google differently. ![]() ![]() This atmosphere was designed from day one to help facilitate creativity, as laid out by Google's very first founders' letter, which states the following: Personally I wouldn't use the word kindergarten to describe it, but the atmosphere is certainly very laid-back with plenty of on-site facilities. I agree with Munger and Buffett's observations about Google because I have also been to its headquarters a few times. It looked to me like a kindergarten." Warren Buffett (Trades, Portfolio) added, "A very rich kindergarten." He said, "I've been to Google headquarters. This post analyzes the infantalization mechanism in Agile Coaching.ĭuring the 2018 Berkshire Hathaway shareholder meeting, the late Charlie Munger commented on Alphabet's culture. Ostensibly professional adults seriously engaged in playing the kindergarten game to become a better product development facilitator using Agile Scrum. I could not believe what was happening around me. I remember in my two day Product Owner certification class we were given a game from kindergarten. I have noted a worrisome trend over the last few decades:
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