Archive for August, 2008
Posted by Christophe on August 23, 2008
David Anderson (now president of Modus Cooperandi) is definitively one of the fresh minds in what some would call the “aging narrow minded agile movement”. He has been an active practitioner for years (sprint PCS/microsoft/corbis) and is talking the language of people that actually have to deliver value for their company.
In his presentation “Future Directions for Agile” at Agile 2008 he showed how kanban can serve to unify the agile and lean principles. He also called for stopping the Agile arrogance and offered to join forces with the CMMI folks to measure enterprise success.
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Posted by Christophe on August 20, 2008
In this presentation filmed during Agile 2008, Henrik Kniberg talks about 10 possible reasons to fail while doing Scrum and XP. Maybe the team does not have a definition of what Done means to them, or they don’t know what their velocity is, or they don’t hold retrospectives.
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Posted by Christophe on August 17, 2008
In this presentation filmed during Agile 2008, David Douglas and Robin Dymond discuss about companies which try to adopt Agile, but don’t go all the way, resulting in failure and rejection of it, and predictably having a negative impact on Agile’s future.
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Posted by Christophe on August 17, 2008
Kenji won the Pask award at Agile 2008 for his work (book translation to japanese and his work on mindmaps). Arlo Belshee was the second winner this year.
This is one of his three talks at the conferece:
In this presentation made during Agile 2008, Kenji Hiranabe talks about Toyota’s development process of a new car. Kenji shares his experience meeting Nobuaki Katayama, Chief Engineer at Toyota, and the lessons he learned from him.
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Posted by Christophe on August 17, 2008
In this presentation filmed during QCon London 2007, Martin Fowler and Dan North talk about the communication gap existing between the developers and the customers or users. Closing this gap is extremely important in order to create successful software.
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Posted by Christophe on August 17, 2008
Videos from Agile 2008 are popping up already. I’ll try listing them all here.
In this presentation filmed during Agile 2008, Ron Jeffries and Chet Hendrickson derive Agile practices from the natural laws of software development. They don’t just say “Be Agile!”, but they explain why Agile practices make perfect sense in the software development world.
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Posted by Christophe on August 12, 2008
In this infoQ interview made by Floyd Marinescu, co-founder of InfoQ, Linda Rising talks about the book “Fearless Change: Patterns for Introducing New Ideas” and offers examples of how the patterns presented in the book can ease the stress of Agile adoption.
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Posted by Christophe on August 11, 2008
As many other sunday evenings, I was in line yesteday at my local supermarket deli counter.
Three employees, three meat slicers, three customers (including me), and a simple need: 1/2 lb of ham sliced thin.
So far so good…
besides the fact that I have to wait to get served.
For what you might ask.
For one of the two busy guys to help me.
Why you might ask.
Is one of the slicer not working? nope.
Is the third guy busy doing something else? not doing anything.
So why? why is he not taking the order?
He simply told me “I can’t operate the slicer sir”, with a face full of boredom.
This is what happens when you don’t cross train your team, don’t get them self organized and don’t pay attention to your customers.
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Posted by Christophe on August 9, 2008
In this presentation filmed during Agile 2007, Mike Cohn talks about the transitioning process towards an agile organization, why the process is inherently difficult, and what it takes to see self-organization emerging in a previously tightly controlled environment
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Posted by Christophe on August 9, 2008
In this InfoQ interview, author and coach Linda Rising reflected on scientific research suggesting that we may be hardwired to work in small, collaborative teams. She also explained what led up to her popular Agile2006 talk “Are Agilists the Bonobos of the Software World?” which focused on their “make love not war” social rituals. The apes’ rituals, that is.
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