Agile wineaccn2011
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The document provides a critical examination of various agile practitioners and their approaches to a simple task—buying wine for a dinner date. It highlights the strengths and weaknesses of different agile methodologies and emphasizes the need for a more holistic understanding of agile practices. Ultimately, the document concludes that the effectiveness of these techniques hinges on the individuals implementing them, rather than the methodologies themselves.
Agile wineaccn2011
- 1. Pust ut – Senk skuldrene An agile tragedy -the agile practitioner visits the wine store Totto-10 Twitter: @javatotto totto@webstep.no Note: This is a culture experience report based “solely” on the Norwegian agile communities, so your mileage will vary...
- 2. Intro - The agile fairytale revisited… • A critical experiment to see how far different Agile “techniques” will get you in a simple real-world experiment. • The though experiment – Observe how typical Agile development stereotypes handle the same task – Task: bring wine for a my special dinner date – Context (menu): • starter: foie gras • main course: high quality grilled Sirloin steak • dessert: cheese platter Pust ut – Senk skuldrene
- 3. The contenders • The freshman agile practitioner • The Kanban practitioner • The peer-programming team • The code dojo evangelist • The agile code-nazi / code quality geek • The "hot-shot wannabee • The pomodoro enthusiast • The value-stream agile practitioner • "Kent Beck" Pust ut – Senk skuldrene
- 4. The freshman agile practitioner Pust ut – Senk skuldrene Poor and confused son-of-a-bitch….. Tries helplessly to maximize productivity…..
- 5. The Kanban practitioner Pust ut – Senk skuldrene •Cool guy with “hip” glasses… •Snappy dresser… •Walk the talk… •Feel the flow… •We need to eliminate waste •..and what happens..
- 6. The peer-programming team Pust ut – Senk skuldrene The driver and the rubber-duck…
- 7. The code dojo evangelist Pust ut – Senk skuldrene I’m just a programmer I want to learn -100 new ways to develop simple applications Completely lost focus
- 8. The agile code-nazi Pust ut – Senk skuldrene •The agilified tech-lead.. •Self-proclaimed expert.. •My way is THE way.. •Quality tool fascist..
- 9. The pomodoro enthusiast Pust ut – Senk skuldrene Re-inventor of common sense -By working hard and focused, you get results Self-centric evangelist -You have to adopt my new revolution.. It’s named after tomato in Italian.. It’s the coolest thing in the universe…
- 10. The "hot-shot” wannabee Pust ut – Senk skuldrene •Know everything there is on Agile •Follow the Agile hotshots in every medium •Quotes hotshots on a regular basis •Go to all the cool conferences and workshops •A talker who believe he is God’s local representative •Still codes 2.5 layer db driven web-apps… •Typically found on XP meetup/Lean meetups, Smidig 2009 and XP 2010… •Lack the interest in analyzing consequences •Everyone else is doing Agile wrong!!!
- 11. The value-stream agile practitioner Pust ut – Senk skuldrene •Experienced SW developer and Agile practitioner •Analytical •Wannabie manager, does not code.. •Frustrated of not delivering project successes
- 12. "Kent Beck" Pust ut – Senk skuldrene •WTF? •Does not give a damn, just deliver…
- 13. Final remarks • What is wrong with Agile practitioner's today? Pust ut – Senk skuldrene Deterministic? Did anyone learn? – how did my date go... :)
- 14. What we need… Pust ut – Senk skuldrene I strongly believe that we need some extension to Agile to… • Try to address a deterministic route to answer the real question favorably: How did the date go…
- 15. Summary • Agile techniques are great, but they only help you part of the way • Be aware of how the different agile techniques skew the results Pust ut – Senk skuldrene There is STILL no silver bullets or golden shortcuts Its not the techniques which fail, it is the PEOPLE!! What happpened to people over processes…