More important than rate of learning is ‘are you learning the right thing’?
Aug 26, 2017
Agile Uber Alles
How did words from a 2-day meeting at a ski lodge, on principles for a new approach to building software become such gospel that they are now being used as principles to run whole corporations engaged in activities nothing to do with software? The Agile Manifesto principles are not even the best choice for all types software development.
This is a fascinating phenomenon worthy of study. At the very least it can confirm theories about diffusion of untested practices and fads. A generation from now, indiscriminate and inappropriate applications of the Agile Manifesto will be seen as something of a Tulip Mania. Or a YAF. Yet Another Fad.
Post Excellence
When all the competition has achieved excellence, what is the next competitive arena?
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