IBM, HP, etc. How do innovative companies devolve to barely producing good products? Is it the original founding employees leaving getting replaced by not so passionate people? Management? C-suites?
They severely underpay for Irvine, hire non technical/gaming leadership, and have fallen deeply to the Agile cult. I actually think Agile severely reduces the quality of creative works like games and movies because it forces all features and experiences into a modularization, but that’s just me.
Some places I hear agile is the bees knees, and others say agile is dead. What system do you think is better?
It's very easy, once the vision of the founders and their cohort dries out you are left with a bunch of people who have to put up quarterly numbers which is easier to do if you are taking shortcuts then after a while competition moves fast and eats you and your complacency makes it hard for you to change direction, it is possible though see Microsoft for example
Makes a lot of sense
Growing up playing blizzard games, this is sad to witness.
IMO c suite getting people they are comfortable with as subordinates making complacency kick in at top level. Of course this only impacts if it happens in a mass scale which is not uncommon. Most of these people would have worked in some company together for a long time. So they try and apply those principles at the new place and fail miserably since complacency would have kicked in due to knowing each other.