Tag Archives: agile

Breaking Up The Team

What would happen if midway through the the NFL season last year, the Pittsburgh Steelers, standing at 6 and 2 and leading the AFC North, had decided that their football season was over and disbanded the team? Or what if they decided to move Big Ben to the training squad because he was a prime …

May 14, 2009 – 9:05 pm | By Scotch Drinker | Posted in Programming | Tagged | Comments (3)

Is Agile The New Waterfall

I ran across this presentation claiming that agile is the new waterfall, that by following some method of agile dogmatically, you are merely substituting one dogma for another and you have failed to gain any learning or understanding. While this may very well be true in certain cases, it reminds me of the opening line …

April 30, 2009 – 8:52 am | By Scotch Drinker | Posted in Programming | Tagged | Comments (3)

Continuous Deployment

When Continuous Integration just isn’t hardcore enough. What an amazing and fascinating place that must be to work, an environment where discipline to their process enables them to deploy code to production up to 50 times a day. The scripts that monitor statistics and perform analysis on the result of the partial rollout are ingenious. …

February 10, 2009 – 11:35 am | By Scotch Drinker | Posted in Programming | Tagged , | Comments (0)

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 …

December 4, 2008 – 10:40 pm | By Scotch Drinker | Posted in Programming | Tagged , , | Comments (1)

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 …

December 1, 2008 – 11:21 am | By Scotch Drinker | Posted in Programming | Tagged , | Comments (2)