Monthly Archives: December 2008

YAGNI In Pictures

Be care­ful writ­ing frame­works, some­one might notice.

Team Rooms Aren’t That Agile

One of the tenets that agile pro­po­nents often tout as the best of the best is the team room. A team room is a cen­tral­ized loca­tion where the entire team works. Typ­i­cally, there are tons of white­boards around, a big space and the con­cept of per­sonal space is thrown out the win­dow if there hap­pens

Is Agile Gestalt?

Ken argues that Agile (big A or lit­tle, your choice) is Gestalt. From this con­clu­sion, he says that it’s a mis­take to dog­mat­i­cally fol­low a given process or pro­scribe par­tic­u­lar tools when we’re try­ing to imple­ment Agile and that instead, we should “…help remove orga­ni­za­tional and soci­o­log­i­cal blocks that pre­vent teams from employ­ing them.” While