Sunday, August 16, 2015

Sketch on how I like to approach Story sign-up

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You don't need Agile, just get rid of the deadweight developers?

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Do we need this Agile malarky if all we need to do is get rid of all the "deadweight developers"? This question implies two ot...
Monday, August 10, 2015

You don't need Agile, just let the developers do what they think is right?

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Do we need this Agile malarky if all that really matters is letting developer do what they think is right? This is a popular variant of ...
Wednesday, August 05, 2015

Agile is for extroverts?

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Is Agile for extroverts? And given most programmers are introverts, is Agile just stupid? Given that I'm an introvert and most pe...
Tuesday, August 04, 2015

Agile is not sustainable?

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Does Agile produce a working environment that is unsustainable? Extreme Programming (XP) originally had an explicit practice called "...
Saturday, August 01, 2015

Agile leads to technical debt?

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Does Agile lead to technical debt? The phrase "technical debt" was coined by Ward Cunningham in 1992.  Ward is known for a few s...
Sunday, July 26, 2015

Product Owner and Scrum Master OVER team members?

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Do Product Owners and Scrum Masters outrank team members? This is an odd belief as there is a strong tendency for people within the Scrum ...
Tuesday, July 21, 2015

Waterfall is just a strawman?

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Is waterfall  just a strawman used by Agile evangelists? "strawman" implies that waterfall is not a real problem, that it no lo...
Monday, July 20, 2015

Agile is just for managers? OR Agile is just for programmers?

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Before "Agile" and even in the early years, when the dominant "lightweight methodology" was Extreme Programming, there w...
Monday, July 13, 2015

Agile is fundamentally just...

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Is Agile fundamentally just X (where X can be any one trait)? For example is Agile fundamentally just... ..."violent transparency...
Sunday, July 12, 2015

Agile was invented by consultants to make money?

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Was Agile invented by consultants to make money? This question has two parts: Was Agile invented by consultants? Was it invented to ma...
Monday, July 06, 2015

Why the especially terrible "Agile" you hear about is misled and wrong

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There have been claims of the terribleness of Agile from the birth of the Agile Manifesto in 2001 and before then, when it was more the ter...

Agile is just some new fad?

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"Agile is just some new fad" might have been a reasonable objection in 2001 but it seems less reasonable after more than a decade....
Monday, June 22, 2015

Thoughts on "mission" OR why "mission" != "mission statement"

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The purpose of exploring "mission" is to provide enough and only just enough guidance to support independent action. Too lit...
Thursday, June 18, 2015

Context, rationale, and overview of Story / Impact Mapping

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Small batch software development is good There are many advantages to working in small batches in software development : Faster feedback...
Monday, June 01, 2015

Concepts that many "Agile" teams miss

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Friday, May 29, 2015

From "make it work, make it right, make it fast" to "rules of simplicity"

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"Make it work, make it right, make it fast" is Kent Beck's formulation of a design philosophy of the "Unix Way". ...
Thursday, May 14, 2015

"Taylorism"? I don't think that means what you think it means...

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There's a tendency for people in the Agile community to throw around the word "Taylorism" as a synonym for evil. It's wo...
Wednesday, May 13, 2015

Command / Direction vs Leadership vs Management

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Modified from The Art of Action , "Command" or "Direction": What do we have to do and why? (intellectual) "Lead...
Thursday, May 07, 2015

"Command and Control"? I don't think that means what you think it means

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I'm annoyed with the tendency for people to throw around the phrase "command and control" as shorthand for authoritarian comma...