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gplfreak | 2 Mar 2012 21:43
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jbdcs2004 | 3 Mar 2012 13:43
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Book: Agile Software: Patterns of Practice

I've put together a book based on the patterns I developed for EuroPLoP doing agile development. The
printed version is available now and the ePub and Kindle versions should follow. You can find out about it
at my professional website: http://jbergin.com

It is a handbook of sorts for those involved in agile projects such as Scrum/XP. It has large and small scale
advice for developers, customers, and managers. 

Joe
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Acaz Souza Pereira | 5 Mar 2012 20:05
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Re: Introverts, Agile and Creativity

Pair Programming Considered Harmful?

http://techcrunch.com/2012/03/03/pair-programming-considered-harmful/

2012/2/24 Tim Ottinger <linux_tim <at> yahoo.com>

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> It sounds odd that an idea is introverted or extraverted, but not than
> opinion is inward or outward in its focus. Not that there its a split
> between mechanistic compliance and optimization. What happened to agile is
> that it has reached mindsets which would not have birthed it and do not
> grok it.
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> That happens to any process, methodology, or ideology. Ultimately it is
> "corrupted" by people who have a shallow or mistaken grasp, even as it is
> improved by this who find the original intent speaks to them profoundly.
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Curtis Cooley | 6 Mar 2012 17:24
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Re: Introverts, Agile and Creativity

On Mon, Mar 5, 2012 at 11:05 AM, Acaz Souza Pereira <acazsouza <at> gmail.com>wrote:

> Pair Programming Considered Harmful?
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> http://techcrunch.com/2012/03/03/pair-programming-considered-harmful/
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> Nothing ground breaking here. Executive Summary:

Each team needs to find a mix of solo, pairing, and group programming that
meets the needs of the team and project. And, by the way, it's different
for every team.

No surprises here ;)
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MarvinToll.com | 18 Mar 2012 13:03

BAUF

Almost three years ago I founded a conference called "Agile and Beyond"... in the belief that Big Agile Up
Front (BAUF) was putting agile practise ahead of agility outcomes.

On March 10, David Anderson seemed (to me) to affirm the validity of the observation with a keynote
presentation the included the directive:

Stop Doing Agile [ http://t.co/Ns3LD5z6 ] Rather: Think Agility

My particular area of interest is Software Agility... that it is more important to arrive at Software
Agility than to insist on any particular practise... like a particular flavor of 'project architecture emergence'.

So, an open-ended thought-starter question: Any Thoughts?
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Ram Srinivasan | 18 Mar 2012 13:16
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Fwd: Lean / Agile conferences in the US

I know that Jurgen Appelo is maintaining a list of all lean/agile
conferences in Europe (mostly)

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AtxuqHFCF4WMdFhlWVdjZ0RVOFRfTF9SZDJaZ3FWUkE&hl=en#gid=0

Can anyone point me to a similar list of conferences which are happening in
the US ?

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Chris Morris | 18 Mar 2012 17:01
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Re: BAUF

Agreed. XP and Scrum and others bring to together some common process
patterns that seem to work. So, certainly we need to be mindful of the
outcome above the process itself, but let's not also get carried away with
Zen like "Be Agile, don't Do Agile" statements and downplay what others
have learned before us.

_and_ ... more important than process is the people you
have<http://www.clabs.org/blogki/index.cgi?page=/ComputersAndTechnology/AgileDevelopment/TheKeyToSuccess>
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Steven Gordon | 18 Mar 2012 18:02
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Re: BAUF

Marvin,

It is not hard to find instances of people doing agile in a non-agile way
or people who observe that it is happening.  However, that shared
observation is very, very far from support for your position.

The cure is to amp-up the collaborative, context-based, inspect-and-adapt
practices that are no doubt being ignored when agile is being done
incorrectly.

Everything I read about your cure is to go back to the 90s and substitute
one-size-fits-all, top-down command-and-control-flavored approaches for the
collaborative, context-based, inspect-and-adapt approaches that have either
broken down or more likely were never implemented due to management
insecurities.  This idea is exactly what the CYA management of many large
enterprises want to hear - that they can achieve agile results and still
maintain direct control.  Unfortunately, anybody who tries your approach
will only ossify the process at whatever amount of agility has been
achieved to date.  This will prevent teams from progressing towards greater
agility.

There is no such thing as agile software, only agile teams.

Steven Gordon, PhD

It is not hard to discover the cure to

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MarvinToll.com | 18 Mar 2012 22:13

Re: BAUF

So there is the start of a potential conversation... I use the term "Software Agility" as a way to
describe... software that is enjoyable to work with.  [Which could also be described as the antithesis of
software loaded with technical debt that is difficult to work with.]

My nemesis Steve Gordon apparently does not share the view that "Software Agility" is a valid (agile)
concern or that it even exists.

I'm wondering if anyone else has found it useful to describe software quality in agile terms? 

Marvin, M.M.Ed. 

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clarke ching | 18 Mar 2012 22:19
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RocksIntoGold ...

Hi everyone, 

It's been ages since I've posted here. 

I just wanted to let you know that my wee Agile book RocksIntoGold is FREE on amazon Kindle for the next few
days.  It's been free on slideshare (and has 20,000 reads) since 2009 but Amazon have recently made it
easier for folk like me to do freebies.

http://amzn.com/B00359FHZQ or http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B00359FHZQ.

Oh, and as a heads up, I'll soon be publishing my big book, Rolling Rocks Downhill - think "The Goal" but set in
software development.  I started it in 2003 or 4, so it's about time :)

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Bob Billington has a problem: he's about to lose his job because the economy has taken a sudden nose-dive
taking the big project he is working on with it. Bob, a natural-born problem-solver, starts asking
questions - the first being "What does it take for a project to be commercially viable in a recession?".

Bob's questions surprise his bosses and his customers ... why does a programmer need to know about
business? The answers surprise everyone ...
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Rocks Into Gold is a business parable, about 15-30 minutes worth of reading, which explains Agile Software
Development without using any Agile words or jargon.

I guess I could have called it: "Who moved my Waterfall?" or "The One Minute Software Engineer saves his
company" ... but I might have had copyright problems...

Hope this helps some of you, or your colleagues - the book is a great way to introduce others to the high level
benefits of Agile.
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