Is Agile for extroverts?
And given most programmers are introverts, is Agile just stupid?
Given that I'm an introvert and most people I've worked with are introverted, I find this question weird every time it's asked.
As long as you are building things for other people, you cannot be effective unless you engage with those people to understand the problem to be solved. As long as you do not have perfect focus and infinite perspective, you cannot be effective unless you learn to work with other people in a close, collaborative way.
I will acknowledge that engaging with people in this way might initially feel uncomfortable.
But I'll suggest that you should be more interested in being effective than not being uncomfortable. If you can't make that shift, then yes, Agile is not for you.
Given that I'm an introvert and most people I've worked with are introverted, I find this question weird every time it's asked.
As long as you are building things for other people, you cannot be effective unless you engage with those people to understand the problem to be solved. As long as you do not have perfect focus and infinite perspective, you cannot be effective unless you learn to work with other people in a close, collaborative way.
I will acknowledge that engaging with people in this way might initially feel uncomfortable.
But I'll suggest that you should be more interested in being effective than not being uncomfortable. If you can't make that shift, then yes, Agile is not for you.
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