It’s been more than two years since I’ve wrote “4 signs that agile is declining”. I gave a talk at Agile Eastern Europe (which hopefully will be up soon) that revisited this topic. I went over things I see today that help agile lose. Not because it’s bad, but the way it seems from business
An interview with me appeared on DevPro Connections. Well, not appeared, more like published. Yes, much more like published.
As I was tinkering with my new CI toy, I became aware of a difference between light CI tools, and the feature heavy ALM tools: Permissions. I always I knew it was there, the ability to restrict all kinds of stuff. From adding work items, to deleting files from source control and to view comments.
My new post on the Typemock blog is up, called “Tinkering About”. It’s a short rant about configuration, fiddling and tinkering, specifically in continuous integration systems. I really wish a fairy would just make it all go away.
Coming back to Agile Eastern Europe was kind of a homecoming, and if you consider it’s my 2nd tour, how great it was. A great professional conference, with great people, and the right size (for me). Enough to get to know people, and not feel overwhelmed. The vibe was great, and for me I felt
Read about it on the Typemock blog. It’s D-licious.
Once you start to deliver software, you build trust. Once you have trust, people around you get more patient, and give you more leeway. Once people are patient, you get opportunities to experiment, and yes, even fail sometimes. Once you experiment, you learn from both success and failure. Once you learn, you get more ideas
When asked about what is agile these days, I say: the ability of an organization to produce software that customers want on a frequent basis. It’s very close to principle of the agile manifesto, as you can probably see. With that in mind, I’d like to take you a trip down memory lane, something like
Since I’m bringing my TDD spaceship to Agile Testing Days (28-31 Oct, Potsdam) and Agile Eastern Europe (4-5 Oct, Kiev), I’ve created a short video depicting in details what led me to do this . True story by the way. PS. For Agile EE, just change a few letters, cities, countries and logos. You’ll have
Autumn is upon us, and the conference cycle resumes. Where can you find me this time? On October 4-5, I’ll be in Kiev, going back to Agile Eastern Europe again. It was great fun last time, and I bet it’s going to be twice as fun this time. In Agile EE I’m going to do