by Paul Detheridge | Jul 22, 2016 | Uncategorized
Because if you are going on an Agile journey, whether its to run a few projects differently, or to transform your business culture, you are going to disrupt some internal eco systems. And that’s a good thing…. Agile calls for a fundamentally different way of doing...
by Paul Detheridge | Jul 22, 2016 | Uncategorized
It’s not that it can’t work, or indeed give you some genuine short term value. The problem is the message that it sends. Confronted with a rate of change that makes one’s head spin, large corporates are desperately scrambling to get a level of agility that enables...
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...
by Paul Detheridge | Oct 11, 2015 | The Company
Welcome to the Shibusa blog! I intend using this blog for the occasional rant about anything that takes my fancy… don’t expect a weekly prompter for ‘this weeks blog’ but I hope to share thoughts and ideas that I’m passionate about when the mood takes me! In the mean...
