Comments for Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Agility

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Comment on Estimation is Easy and Useful: Estimate a game of Chess by Woody Z.

Woody Z. — Mon, 07 Nov 2011 22:03:58 +0000

Hey Aaron. I think that the Agile namespace has been poluted. Not too many places claiming to be “Agile” or trying to follow an agile methodology are actually “doing Agile”. In most cases this is unintentional, but is a sign of how difficult it is to manage software development. Most folks are just trying to get on with their work, and are hoping the latest “new thing” (Agile, in this case) will go away so things will settle back into the same old “same old” where they get to keep plodding through the work-week without interuption. Okay - I’ll try to keep from being too depressing - just keep saying “This too shall pass, this too shall pass”

Comment on Estimation is Easy and Useful: Estimate a game of Chess by Aaron Griffith

Aaron Griffith — Mon, 07 Nov 2011 21:47:15 +0000

Reading this made me realize I used to get frustrated with upper management for not following agile practices. Now I get frustrated because they claim they are agile but are really just screwing it up and giving it a bad name.

Comment on Refill Your Cup by Woody Z.

Woody Z. — Tue, 27 Sep 2011 22:23:13 +0000

Hello Ran: I don’t think so. I have heard of programmers with a social life, but I have never seen one.

Comment on Refill Your Cup by Ran Ever-Hadani

Ran Ever-Hadani — Tue, 27 Sep 2011 22:13:35 +0000

So, to take a purely hypothetical example, suppose an expert programmer and a novice programmer get together in their lunch hour to do the Bowling Kata. Can the novice now claim to have a social life?

Comment on About by Chris

Chris — Wed, 06 Jul 2011 23:47:35 +0000

Woody,
Is there a way I can contact you about that offer you mentioned at the Dot Net Dev meeting yesterday?

Comment on Will Agile be Killed? by Pam Fox

Pam Fox — Wed, 24 Nov 2010 21:46:34 +0000

I agree with you Woody. Agile will “live” as long as there are people committed to using it and who have seen its successes. Certification is only the beginning and not an end in itself: our participation on Scrum teams is where the real learning and growing takes place. Getting certified is more a part of the “commitment” process – for us and our managers.

Comment on About by Woody Z.

Woody Z. — Mon, 30 Jun 2008 15:40:14 +0000

Thanks Steve - you are too kind. I’ll be happy to send the slides as a PDF over the next few days if that helps. The slides are just my talking points - I use them to remind me of things I want to say, so a lot of what I am trying to convey is left out.

Comment on About by Steve

Steve — Mon, 30 Jun 2008 04:55:41 +0000

This was a great presentation this weekend:

> Agile Development Basics - In this presentation I cover the Agile values and principles, as well as the a little about why we need something like Agile.

Thanks!

I’d like to share some of with my team - if you are sharing your slides, could you email them to me?

Comment on You Can’t Test Documents for Correctness or Completeness by Adacelapkal

Adacelapkal — Wed, 07 May 2008 23:15:42 +0000

omg.. good work, bro