Digital practice is a sinking ship - Business Analyst Guidehouse Employee Review

- Guidehouse’s digital practice suffers from toxic office politics at the leadership level that penalizes honest critique/critical thinking. This has resulted in the team’s main software project lacking a logical development process. While there are skilled people below leadership that have extensive experience with Agile methodologies and software development, anyone interested in improving things has to constantly navigate a minefield of sensitive egos and unnecessary hierarchy. Most who have tried have been either shut down or pushed out of the team, as management seems to prioritize keeping up good optics with partners/clients rather than allowing the team to self-organize and address the critical process issues head-on. - Due to widespread mismanagement, system requirements and development progress are not effectively tracked. While they will talk in Agile and Scrum terms during client meetings for optics purposes, leadership does not to seem fully grasp the basics (some are from a non-technical background). The result is a chaotic mess of a solution that has not been tested in any real capacity. When the team tries to address these issues, management falls back on defending the dysfunctional status quo as if it is worth saving. Meanwhile, all of this is becoming increasingly visible to clients and the rest of the firm.