Re: Agile coming to our shop (supposedly)

Try pair programming for a few days and you will definitely flee for the hills.

I said Alt-F4, not Shift-F4. Let me be the left hand for a while and you be the right so I can work on my dexterity.

Regards,

Richard Schoen
Director of Document Management
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p. 952.486.6802
w. helpsystems.com

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message: 7
date: Fri, 20 Jul 2018 15:01:50 -0600
from: Jack Woehr <jwoehr@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
subject: Re: Agile coming to our shop (supposedly)

rigid methodology is the enemy of productivity.


On Fri, Jul 20, 2018 at 2:40 PM, Pete Helgren <pete@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

I am on the backside of a three day conference that focused on
microservices (Cloud native technologies, actually) but Agile raised
it's ugly head because CI/CD is an integral part of microservice
deployment and CI/CD is all about agile.

I highly recommend that you read through a report found here:

https://explore.versionone.com/state-of-agile/12th-annual-
state-of-agile-report-overview (download the report in PDF....)

One of the more interesting findings was the response to the
statement:"Agile practices are enabling greater adaptability to market
conditions" Only 4% of respondents said that was true, which says a
lot about using agile to respond to the market. Since the vendor
sponsoring the conference is deep into microservices and cloud native
tech, they also admitted that their products, an ESB among them,
contributes to the complexity of a microservice solution which they
felt was hampering an agile workflow.

Features of agile have their place in "modern" development. More
rapid iteration, working more closely with the end customer, breaking
the work down into smaller pieces: All good stuff IMHO. But in my
particular case, the organization I work for has adopted a bunch of
agile practices and collaboration software ( Slack, Podio, Zoom
conferencing, plus the usual email and texting) that seems to have added even more vectors of complexity
to the development process. Give me an hour with an end user and
sketchpad any day. Nothing facilitates communication better than face
to face....

Like "microservices", the term agile has many nuances of meaning.
Balancing process and programming is the key.

Pete Helgren
www.petesworkshop.com
GIAC Secure Software Programmer-Java
Twitter - Sys_i_Geek IBM_i_Geek