In this episode, Allen joined Shahin to talk about what truly Agile is in today’s world of Software Development.

Topics

We conversed about and around the following topics:

• Agile or Not


• Agile is nothing more than Better Software Better


• What is Real Agile Thinking? Reasons to Avoid Agile


• Fake Agile, Dark Agile (Foe Agile)


• Trust is the heart of agile


• SAFE v.s. Scrum; Kanban Board Assumes Linear Process

Agile in The Time of Corona

• Scrum’s Response to Corona


• Remote Working Went Bad – More Silos


• The Complexity Of Working From Home


• Work Is A Human Activity

Challenges of Successful Agile Transformation in Large Organization (And Typically Failures)

• Experiments Failure in Big Organizations; PMO and Agile Failure Pattern


• ING Transformation Story (New Zealand) + Home Depot


• Dunbar Number

Agile Architecture

• Designing Flexible (Agile) Code and Dependency (of code) with the Client; The Holub Principle


• Architecture Process Code Culture Connected for True Agile


• Mob Moves Forward Even If Individual Has To Drop Out And Come Back In

Social Software Development & Mentorship

People & Resources:

We referred to and/or mentioned the following people and/or resources:

Books

• Fixing Your Scrum – (Amazon US – Amazon CA)


• Scrum: The Art of Doing Twice the Work in Half the Time – (Amazon US – Amazon CA)


• Holub on Patterns (Amazon US – Amazon CA)

People:

• Ryan Ripley


• Jeff Sutherland


• Ken Schwaber


• The New New Product


• Simon Brown


• Gerry Weinberg

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