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Zooming in on “Agile”
For a long time, “Agile” has been a buzzword in software development. It comes from the Manifesto for Agile Software Development. Although many people see the benefits of Agile, it’s adoption in the industry has been anything but straight-forward. This is evident from the fact that there are several agile frameworks, methodologies, tools, and coaches.
Kent Beck (coauthor of the Manifesto) said this about Agile in a 2020 article:
It’s a devastated wasteland. The life has been sucked out of it. It’s a few religious rituals carried out by people who don’t understand the purpose that those rituals were intended to serve in the first place.
— Kent Beck
Therefore, today, I have selected a series of talks that dive into the details of Agile and look at some different perspectives: having both for and against, from general to technical, we look back in history and we look forward.
I recommend taking a break after each talk, reflecting on which values and principles from the manifesto the talk was most concerned with, and try to state in 3–5 points how software development would look only from the perspective of that talk. If you are watching these as a group I recommend taking time to discuss after each talk.
Schedule
- Extreme Programming 20 years later, Kent Beck [40min]:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cGuTmOUdFbo - One Hacker Way Rational alternative of Agile, Erik Meijer [45min]:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2u0sNRO-QKQ - Agile is Dead, Dave Thomas [40min]:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a-BOSpxYJ9M - The Secret Assumption of Agile, Fred George [45min]:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l1Efy4RB_kw - Governing Agile Delivery, Dan North [45min]:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wG-zBVl0A4g - Agility ≠ Speed, Kevlin Henney [60min]:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xjf3eW5lftw - Revisiting Agile, Dan North [30min]:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pcLbkmvqfiY
I hope you have enjoyed this home conference, and that it has helped widen your perspective of agile software development.
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