Agile Is Dead (Long Live Agility)

Re:Agile Is Dead (Long Live Agility) by shadowmint on Tuesday March 11, 2014 @06:58AM (#7378479)

The point of that article is that you need to be self reflective and open to change.

I'll post it here again, without any of the other distracting things he said about verbs and so on. Just take a moment to think about what these steps actually mean:

    - Find out where you are
    - Take a small step towards your goal
    - Adjust your understanding based on what you learned
    - Repeat

If you want to work as effectively as you can, you should actively change your process constantly based on reflecting on past performance against your goals.

...if you don't care, or can't be bothered, well, that's fine too (self reflection isn't easy); just realize that your own set of pedantic dogmatic rules is no better than any other Agile process set.

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Re:Agile Is Dead (Long Live Agility) by chrisconley on Tuesday March 11, 2014 @08:31AM (#7378815)

Spot on. This has been sort of an obsession of mine lately using the game of hangman and decision theory to "prove" why this works and how it applies to software development.

There are so many dogmas out there (Fail fast, MVP, Agile, Lean, etc) which all boil down to the same thing: Maximizing information gain and minimizing the cost of failure.

I'm planning on a blog post/email course/talk/something in the next few weeks but it's not quite ready yet.

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Re:Agile Is Dead (Long Live Agility) by sillysaurus3 on Tuesday March 11, 2014 @10:29AM (#7379350)

This has been sort of an obsession of mine lately using the game of hangman and decision theory to "prove" why this works and how it applies to software development.

Oh come on, you can't tease us like that! You have a duty to satisfy our curiosity now. :)

How can hangman with decision theory apply to software development?

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Re:Agile Is Dead (Long Live Agility) by chrisconley on Tuesday March 11, 2014 @11:23AM (#7379736)

Well, I've started on a landing page for an email course. It's pretty rough around the edges, but I suppose I could take this opportunity to solicit feedback. ;)

I would also be thrilled to get my first signup. :)

http://chrisconley.io/delivered/

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Re:Agile Is Dead (Long Live Agility) by keithly on Tuesday March 11, 2014 @09:39AM (#7379099)

This reminds me of the OODA loop: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OODA_loop

I think this concept also describes the essence of "agile" well (along with the four points you quote).

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Re:Agile Is Dead (Long Live Agility) by marcosdumay on Tuesday March 11, 2014 @12:08PM (#7380126)

Oh, the scientific method is great, isn't it?

It's new tech, just from the XIV century... It would be great if people were that up to date.

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Re:Agile Is Dead (Long Live Agility) by Domenic_S on Tuesday March 11, 2014 @01:45PM (#7380865)

Assuming you know what your goal is.

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