How do I know? Well, it seems people try agile, and it doesn’t work for them. You can take a couple of examples from Ben Linders’ post on InfoQ: “The Flexibility of Agile: Flaw or Strength?” The first example explains that agile doesn’t differentiate between large and small tasks, just by importance. This is completely
When is a problem not a problem? When there is a solution When there seems to be a solution. If a problem wasn’t solved, we’d see all kinds of talks around it, ideas of solutions, discussions (wars) about different possible resolutions. Once we have a solution, bingo! The problem went away. If you apply Cynefin
Tomorrow I’ve got a full day. In the morning, I’m giving a talk at the Sela Developer Practice. This is going to be about “7 steps to writing your first unit test”. Following that, I’m going to hang out at the Typemock booth at Agile Israel 2013. If you’re there, come and say hi. If
I’ve become more aware how agile is perceived by different people, recently when I was at Agile Eastern Europe conference. It was an unusual experience: my usual day job has been for a long time about improvement. My twitter conversations are about high level lean and advanced agile stuff.I’m floating happily inside my echo chamber.
I was watching a presentation called “Is it me, or is everything $#!t?”. I recommend watching it for yourselves, but here’s a taste. Consider the wisdom of crowds. If we can check out a reality TV show, and ask the crowds what they think about ideas on it, we’d get a normal distribution, sort of.
I was supposed to be there last year, but due to personal engagements had to cancel. But I’m not missing this year’s AgileEE! I’m going to talk about “10 phrases that can derail an agile project”, plus a lightning talk. I know, I know, there are other speakers as well. But come see me anyway.
I’ll be presenting in the Israel .Net user group on unit testing with a star wars twist on May 22nd. So don’t be shy, learn Hebrew, if you don’t know already and register here: http://idndug-may-2012.eventbrite.com/ And if you haven’t checked out my latest article “The Developer-Tester Divide” , what’s your excuse? While you’re at
The CHAOS report says agile projects succeed three times more than non-agile, reports Mick Cohn. Good news, until I recalled that the CHAOS manifesto defines success as on budget, on time, and with all planned features. Show me an agile project that has all the original features in it, I dare you. Agility has change
It’s update time again. Here’s the plan for the next few months: March 19-20: Software passion summit, in Goteborg, Sweden. I’ll be talking about the ultimate question in software: “When will it be done?”. I hope to provide some answers as well. This is a new conference, and by the looks of it, is going
Sometimes I see the wonders of the universe in small things. And I’m not talking about my kids this time. When I try to formulate some text or idea, I usually use Word. One of the skills I’ve adopted, is to put down everything I think on the document first, then edit and re-edit. I