by Paul Detheridge | Apr 14, 2016 | Agile Evolution
My last few posts have focussed on the state of the nation with respect to the Agile movement in general. Today’s post is focussed on Agile for Software Engineering and one of the key assumptions that can be made about Agile teams that is fraught with danger....
by Paul Detheridge | Mar 14, 2016 | Agile Evolution
Coach: “I order you to keep your Standups to 15 Minutes.” Team: “What we object to is that you automatically treat us as inferior” Coach: “Well I am your Coach” Team: “Order eh ‘Coach’, who do you think you are, we didn’t vote for you” Coach: “You don’t vote for...
by Paul Detheridge | Mar 11, 2016 | Agile Evolution
I give you a new term: Zomgile – “The mindless application of Agile practices without regard to original intent or real outcomes”
by Paul Detheridge | Mar 1, 2016 | Agile Evolution
My last couple of posts ‘That’s not Agile’ (find at https://www.shibusa.com.au/thats-not-agile/ ) and ‘Agile is Sh!te’ (find at https://www.shibusa.com.au/agile-is-shite/ ) have focussed on state of the nation with respect the movement and some broader observations...
by Paul Detheridge | Feb 19, 2016 | Agile Evolution
The movement is at risk people. Forums full of modern day Pharisees preaching this and that, demanding practices be applied with mindless rigour. Worshipers of one cult or another, failing to recognise they are in a cult or that 1000 other cults exist within the same...
by Paul Detheridge | Feb 18, 2016 | Agile Evolution
I made this post on Linked originally. It has got a lot of interest…. If I see another post from an Agile Fundamentalist ‘explaining’ what is and isn’t Agile…. Firstly: Agile is no longer one set of practices. It is primarily a culture, underpinned...