From the text I see the following:
Agile Like:
- Small teams focused on solving specific problems
- Collaboration among the surgeions
Non Agile Like:
- Surgeons are the authority, driving the plan, determining the design, allocating support tasks (viewng them as subservent to coding) and doing the coding. All of those are very command and control in approach and contrary to self directing teams (vs a directed team)
- There appears to be no collaboration with the business partner (let alone frequent collaboration with the busines partner)
- There appears to be no prioritized product backlog, thus the surgeon picks what is important not the business partner
- There appears to be no incrmental delivery (tight feedback loop)
For a waterfall project, it is suggesting to use a team of experts (surgeons) to do the planning, designing, coding etc. and allocating tasks to the "support" staff. On an agile team, testing is not treated as support but an integral part of delivery.
One can't say with certainty the methodology being advocated. However, it does appear to use the language (project plans, tasks) and assume that the waterfall approach is being followed (phases like design, coding, testing driven by a plan). Whatever methodology is being used, it one for which the few determine the work for the many.
