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The Quest for the One True Way
One thing that has always confused me about the “agile movement” is their quest to find the One True Way of managing software projects, which is best for ALL software projects. This has never made sense to me; there are … Continue reading
Responding to Change over Following a Plan = Technical Debt
So, in this post, I will demonstrate that following agile methodologies in general, and the agile manifesto in particular, will lead to the accumulation of technical debt. As we know, the ‘festo states that they value “Responding to Change Over … Continue reading
Howto: Create and Promote a new (but popular) Agile Methodolology
1) Make sure it has a board. The bigger the better. It doesn’t really matter what information is on the board, as long as the board is there
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Tagged #cartel, #kanbanvsscrum, #scrumvskanban, agile, kanban, lean, scrum, tps, waterfall, xp
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Planet of the eXtreme Programmers, 10th Anniv. Edition
Remember XP? Pair Programming? Onsite customers? Sure, most of that is passe now, but we have new fads that are just as silly (Scrum, etc). So, in a spirit of humor and nostalgia, I am reposting my original story, Planet of the … Continue reading
Are you an independent thinker or just an Agile Parrot?
There are two kinds of blog posters out there: 1) Independent thinkers who have their own opinion or conclusions about things, and write about them 2) Parrots who regurgitate what others have written with little to no original content. When … Continue reading
Job Titles and Pay Scale in an Agile World
Many “Agile Methods” such as Scrum and XP suggest (or command) that there shall be no job titles on the team. What are the implications of this? Although this “utopian” view suggests that all team members are equal, this would … Continue reading
Posted in agile, cio, cto, scrum, xp
Tagged agile, capitalism, communism, compensation, scrum, xp
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Scrum and XP as related to the Agile Manifesto
People often point to the manifesto to justify aspects of Scrum or XP. They’ll say “see right here in the manifesto it says that….” These folks need to learn a little history.
Rhetorical Anti-Patterns in Scrum and XP
How to improve your teams communication and eradicate harmful communication patterns Continue reading
Posted in agile, c#, java, scrum, Uncategorized, xp
Tagged agile, cio, civility, cto, scrum, scrum master, scrumandamentalism, scrumdamentalist, xp
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The flawed rhetoric about “Scrum” and “Organizational Dysfunction”
One of the most bizarre, yet highly touted, “features” of Scrum is that it “exposes Organizational Dysfunction”. Not mere team based, project based, or even departmental dysfunction, but Organizational Dysfunction … enterprise wide. Now this is crazy on so many … Continue reading
The High Cost of Emergent Design/Subsequent Refactorings
In my previous post, I demonstrated that even with a lowered cost of change curve, change is still expensive. But, you might say, OK, we agree with that, so we’ll try to do more up front analysis and try to … Continue reading
