You keep using that word...
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Agilists are Minimalists
Thank you Joshua! https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:6553338155314094080
Metrics Perpetuate Distrust
Guest post from Dan Greenberg “We need to define success.” Have you heard that one? It happens all the time at bureaucratic corporate organizations who love creating measuring sticks to help them figure out whether everything is okay or not. Before beginning anything, corporate junkies always insist we define what a successful outcome will look like. I take issue with this. First off, life is far more complex than a black-and-white this worked or it didn’t outcome. I propose something else entirely: Start doing some project At regular intervals, get everyone involved with the project (working on it, has some interest in it being successful, cares about it, etc.) into a room together and ask them all “is this project going well?” or “could anything be improved?” (This group of people includes all customers by the way.) For those who think it’s not going well or that it could be improved, ask them what they think is going wrong or what they think could be impr...
Use Cases to help with User Stories?
As recommended by Jeff Sutherland - another way to avoid formal waterfall requirements... https://pages.services/ss.ivarjacobson.com/use-case-2/
Agile is Bulls*%t
Thank you Dan Greenberg for another great guest post! A fantastic 2016 post from Agilist Jasmine Adamson . Sourced from this Quora story (and to find the original comment, you'll have to scroll about 3/4 of the way down the page) Full text reprinted here: Agile is bullshit, that's why. OK let me qualify... The Agile Philosphy is perfectly fine, and it addresses the physical and psychological aspects of managing software development teams quite well. The bullshit comes in when a team or company makes the statement that "we are doing Agile" because they aren't. So, to clarify, Agile itself is a good idea, but when someone says they are "doing Agile" that statement is bullshit. Always. Programmers like things well-defined. When you tell me we're going to "do The Agile Process" (it's not a process), I expect an organization that follows these principles: Principles behind the Agile Manifesto Those principles are well defined...