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- Hating on Agile goes Mainstream
- The Incredible Logic of Agile
- Get your Agile Laundry
- The Difference between “Agile” and “Lean”
- The con job that is Shu-Ha-Ri
- Where the Agile/Scrum Community got it wrong, and why the backlash continues to grow
- Death by Agile Fever
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- Know — And Choose — What you are optimizing for
- Should “Agile” methodolgies just be called “Lightweight” methodologies?
- Voke releases Research Report on Agile Realities
- Kanban for Software Engineering?
- Range Estimation versus Point Estimation
- The Perennial Waterfall Strawman/Myth
- Orwell on Agile
- Infotisements, Propaganda, and Agile
- Agile promotes less accountability, not more
- Refactoring the Role of the Product Owner
- Management is Not Bad — MicroManagement is Bad
- Teamwork in a Command and Control Enviornment?
- The Quest for the One True Way
- Do Solid Engineering and Business Practices need New Age/Eastern Religion/Anti-Capitalist leanings to succeed?
- Responding to Change over Following a Plan = Technical Debt
- Agile is a Placebo and that’s Fine, Claims noted Agile Author
- Scrum Deprogramming Seminars coming to a City near you
- Evidence that Scrum is in decline?
- Excellent NYT Article on Open Office, Groupthink, Concentration and Productivity
- Death by a thousand cuts, Agile/Scrum style — an example
- Post Agilism: Moving beyond the outdated and misdirected aspects of “Agile”
- By Popular Request: What my Approach Is
- Enthusiasm and Astroturfing in the Agile Landscape
- The New New Agile Manifesto
- The State of Agile 2012
- My Fix for the “CreateRiaClientFilesTask task failed unexpectedly. — Attempted to access an unloaded AppDomain” error
- Howto: Create and Promote a new (but popular) Agile Methodolology
- Lack of Scrum Success stories a Growing Concern?
- Planet of the eXtreme Programmers, 10th Anniv. Edition
- Is Scrum just a series of Mini Waterfalls?
- Are you an independent thinker or just an Agile Parrot?
- Scrum Success Stories
- Is the Agile Community still “uncovering better ways of developing software…” or just debating whether to implement Scrum or Kanban?
- Understanding the psychology of dogma and “purists” in Scrum and other movements
- Cultural aspects of bringing Lean, Kanban, TPS, Scrum and other Japanese based management systems to the west
- Refactoring the Scrum Lexicon
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- The Difference between Scrum and kanban approaches
- Retrospecting my blog
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- Hating on Agile goes Mainstream
- The Incredible Logic of Agile
- Get your Agile Laundry
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#NoEstimates and all that
Lately there has been a fracas brewing about the “No Estimates” movement. I have some meta commentary before diving into the subject at hand. First of all, like “agile vs waterfall” itself, or the agile word itself, “no estimates” tries … Continue reading
Hating on Agile goes Mainstream
It had to happen sooner or later — as much as the Agilistas want to paint a picture of fuzzie bunnies, and shiny happy developers, now that more companies have considerable experience with agile and scrum, they are more than … Continue reading
The Incredible Logic of Agile
Webster defines incredible as: too extraordinary and improbable to be believed. Most of the incredible successes of agile, are in fact, incredible. I’ll be blogging about how some of these successes were actually colossal failures. But what is equally incredible … Continue reading
Get your Agile Laundry
Recently an agile blogger had tweeted that the most mundane tasks can seem cool, if you preface it with the word agile. Eg, “Agile Laundry”, “Agile Chores”, etc… I had responded with, well, maybe you’ll finally realize that agile has … Continue reading
The Difference between “Agile” and “Lean”
The difference between agile and lean is simple to understand, but most people feel they are somehow equivalent. They are not. Lean — is designed to reduce waste and improve operational efficiency, especially related to repetitive tasks as often in … Continue reading
The con job that is Shu-Ha-Ri
On another blog I posted the following: That’s true. Ha is to question the norm. After you have gone through the training and expense of the Shu stage. When you get to Ri they don’t make any money off of … Continue reading
Where the Agile/Scrum Community got it wrong, and why the backlash continues to grow
Everywhere you go it seems, people are being more and more critical of Agile and Scrum. What happened? Where did it go wrong? Isn’t Agile all Fuzzy Bunnies and Goodness? Here’s my take on where the Agile Movement went astray … Continue reading
Death by Agile Fever
In an enlightening and entertaining post, Alex Bell takes to task the Zeal that blinds many to the obvious shortcomings of Agile. Bell categorizes the following Agile fevers: Lemming Fever Easy Button Fever One Size Fits All Fever Elbow Grease … Continue reading
Know — And Choose — What you are optimizing for
There are a lot of software development approaches and methodologies out there. What do they do? Which should you choose? First of all, I think you need to know — and choose — what you are optimizing for. Are you … Continue reading
Should “Agile” methodolgies just be called “Lightweight” methodologies?
In a recent exchange on InfoQ, regarding the recently released Voke report on Agile, I opined the following: I just wanted to add and concur that originally these were called “lightweight” methodologies and I think the term is accurate — … Continue reading
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