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Category Archives: agile
Considering society
OK now that the anniversary’s out of the way, I can stop being hagiographic towards agile software development and point out the one big flaw in the approach. It’s a stinker. Here’s the list of everybody mentioned in the manifesto … Continue reading
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Happy 25th birthday to the manifesto for agile software development!
11th-13th February 2001 is the occasion of the most famous skiing holiday in software. Don’t take my word for it; Jim Highsmith was there and wrote the history. It’s pretty astounding that, in a field where everyone tries to remind … Continue reading
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Is spec-driven development the end of Agile software development?
A claim that I’ve seen on software social media is that spec-driven development is evidence that agile was a dark path, poorly chosen. The argument goes that Agile software development is about eschewing detailed designs and specifications, in favour of experimentation and … Continue reading
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On the locations of the bullet holes on bombers that land successfully
Ken Kocienda (unwrapped twitter thread, link to first tweet): I see so many tweets about agile, epics, scrums, story points, etc. and none of it matters. We didn’t use any of that to ship the best products years ago at … Continue reading
An Imagined History of Agile Software Development
Having benefited from the imagined history of Object-Oriented Programming, it’s time to turn our flawed retelling toolset to Agile. This history is as inaccurate and biased as it is illuminating. In the beginning, there was no software. This was considered … Continue reading
The missing principle in agile software development
The biggest missing feature in the manifesto for agile software development and the principles behind it is anyone other than the makers and their customer. We get autonomous, self-organising delivery teams but without the sense of responsibility to a broader … Continue reading
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On programmer behaviours that make Scrum so bad
Respectable persons of this parish of Internet have been, shall we say, critical of Scrum and its ability to help makers (particularly software developers) to make things (particularly software). Ron Jeffries and GeePaw Hill have both deployed the bullshit word. … Continue reading
There is no “us” in team
I’ve talked before about the non-team team dynamic that is “one person per task”. Where the management and engineers collude to push the organisation beyond a sustainable pace by making sure that at all times, each individual is kept busy … Continue reading
On UML
A little context: I got introduced to UML in around 2008, at an employer who had a site licence for Enterprise Architect. I was sent on a training course run by a company that no longer exists called Sun Microsystems: … Continue reading
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By doing it and helping others do it
We are uncovering better ways of developing software by doing it and helping others do it. It’s been 20 years since those words were published in the manifesto for agile software development, and capital-A Agile methods haven’t really been supplanted. … Continue reading
