Stick along long enough in software development, and you may have come along the ride for Agile software development practices, methodologies, and/or frameworks. Stick along long enough in that community – ok, that might be a reach too far, given that community only exists about 30 years or so. All of the above said, I notice some developments lately around the term Agile, and need to get my thoughts down. Not that I think I have a particular relevant perspective to start with. But maybe I can offer some perspective to one or another reader.
If you know me, you probably know that I have a tendency to look back on where did we come from to better understand things happening in the present. If you are not that kind of understander, maybe this blog entry might not be for you. So, be warned before moving on.
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Some while ago, J.B. Rainsberger posted a case for slack, and that you might be sabotaging your peoples training. I think it was Kent Beck who pointed me to the self-similarity of nature in eXtreme programming explained. In this post I’m going to take a closer look on how we learn, and how nature is self-similar in this regard, and what we may derive from this.
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Just saw a great GoogleTechTalk video with Amy Jo Kim on social games and the trends that can be seen in platforms like Twitter or Facebook. Since I love to mentally play around with abstract concepts, I started to relate it to Agile Software development and this is where I ended up with.
Continue reading Software Development as Cooperative Social Games →
Alistair Cockburn told us about a research in the UK on Scrum. He pointed out to the student, that Scrum is not a process, but something different. This made me thoughtful and I decided to elaborate some more on the terms and reflect on the other Agile methodologies about it.
Continue reading Not a process →
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