{"id":153,"date":"2012-09-16T16:13:43","date_gmt":"2012-09-17T00:13:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zuill.us\/WoodyZuill\/?p=153"},"modified":"2012-09-16T16:13:43","modified_gmt":"2012-09-17T00:13:43","slug":"the-8-agile-maxims-of-woody-zuill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/zuill.us\/WoodyZuill\/2012\/09\/16\/the-8-agile-maxims-of-woody-zuill\/","title":{"rendered":"The 8 Agile Maxims of Woody Zuill"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Below are my 8 Agile Maxims.<\/p>\n<p>They are not in any particular order, although my favorite is probably the paraphrase from Rober Henri.<\/p>\n<p>You&#8217;ll note that there are now Nine&#8230; the ninth one simple is a disclaimer that this is bound to grow, shrink, or otherwise change over time.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>It is in the doing of the work that we discover the work that we must do. Doing exposes reality.<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;Responding to Change&#8221; is impossible unless code is easy to change, easy to maintain, easy to fix, and easy to enhance.<\/li>\n<li>Question Everything &#8211; put special focus on our deepest held beliefs. What we trust most hides our biggest problems.<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;Working Software&#8221; is software that users are actually using. Until it&#8217;s in use it is truly useless.<\/li>\n<li>Stress at work diminishes value. Crunch-time is a symptom of harmful and counter-productive attitudes.<\/li>\n<li>We are the innovators of our process. Learn what works for others, prove it for our self, innovate beyond.<\/li>\n<li>The object isn&#8217;t to make great software, it&#8217;s to be in that wonderful state which makes great software inevitable &#8211; Henri<\/li>\n<li>The more we work at the work we do, the less capable we become -Repenning\/Sterman &#8211; Make time for improving capability<\/li>\n<li>The unspoken Agile Maxim &#8211; I reserve the right to add, remove, change, improve.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Below are my 8 Agile Maxims. They are not in any particular order, although my favorite is probably the paraphrase from Rober Henri. You&#8217;ll note that there are now Nine&#8230; the ninth one simple is a disclaimer that this is bound to grow, shrink, or otherwise change over time. It is in the doing of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-153","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-agile-stuff","category-extreme-programming"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/zuill.us\/WoodyZuill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/zuill.us\/WoodyZuill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/zuill.us\/WoodyZuill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zuill.us\/WoodyZuill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zuill.us\/WoodyZuill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=153"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/zuill.us\/WoodyZuill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":154,"href":"https:\/\/zuill.us\/WoodyZuill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153\/revisions\/154"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/zuill.us\/WoodyZuill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=153"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zuill.us\/WoodyZuill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=153"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zuill.us\/WoodyZuill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=153"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}