What does Agile Methodology really mean @ my-Company?

Agile Methodology is supposed to bring in productive work among associates. In a particular Onsite-Offshore (Can be Client Customer as well) model, everyone working in the team sums up the work he/she has done during the day/week. To be productive to a very extreme level, the update is to be given over the phone every day. The updates can be given by the way of documentation as well.

I have been using the word "productive" quite some times now, what does this really mean? A work is considered productive, only if it has a visible change. This visible change has to be seen in the work we do, the visible change basically means changes in the project documents or the project solution(code). All the thinking that one does would not be considered as productive work. So if a particular implementation or design requires a lot of thinking or a day's research, this is considered as no work done.

What impact would this have on the employees?
Agile Methodology works on the principle of peer pressure. Every employee should have his list of productive items for the day to update by the end of the day. So if there are 10 associates working on the project, everyone should have enough updates to be mentioned in the call. Every time your peer has more updates to give, the more will you have to work to exceed his update list. This way of competition goes on to such an extent that, finally there is no life in you to work.

I personally feel Agile Methodology is one of the worst ways to define productive work. It reduces the quality of the work that is being done as the only goal of an employee would be to get maximum number of items on his list for the day. Using peer pressure tactics by the employer in the work environment, brings down the efficiency of work being done. This is equivalent to direct comparison of one associate's work with the other. So plz guys, just stop using this methodology.

Lull before the Appraisal

Happy were everyone, life was joy,
Happy were everyone, life went by,
Happy was I, life had smiled.


Have you heard of "Lull before the Storm" now listen to the "Lull before the Appraisal".

This is what life was few days back. Life is a lot wrecked now. How I hope I could have time-traveled to the past, when there was a broad smile in everybody’s face. Projects were going by the will of every Associate, today it moves by the force of the Managers.

Self motivation exists only there where there is equality in the treatment of all associates. Self motivation to achieve, Self motivation to move up, self motivation to succeed is all that is necessary to keep a project moving.

But where has the equality gone? Where has the zeal in everyone disappeared?

Both of these vanished in a single storm. The storm was named "The Appraisal".