Agile, like many other abstract ideas in software, can kind of be weaponized to win a debate. That’s kind of what it was made for.
I think agile may have been practiced differently had there been more diversity in the room, but in my opinion agile today has more to do with those who latched on to it and decided how it should be practiced than the manifesto itself.
If 17 people get together to write an an abstract document about how people should communicate and build software, there absolutely should be diversity of voices in the room. At this point it seems to me hard to really make clear maps back to the manifesto. (Though I didn’t watch the talk. I will when I find a moment)
Thanks, Ben - you have a lovely way of summarising. The talk is worth watching.
I'm not trying to be down on anyone. It just struck me as interesting that I hadn't challenged my own thinking of these things as being basic truths agreed by a wide cross-section of the software world until that point in the video.
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Agile, like many other abstract ideas in software, can kind of be weaponized to win a debate. That’s kind of what it was made for.
I think agile may have been practiced differently had there been more diversity in the room, but in my opinion agile today has more to do with those who latched on to it and decided how it should be practiced than the manifesto itself.
If 17 people get together to write an an abstract document about how people should communicate and build software, there absolutely should be diversity of voices in the room. At this point it seems to me hard to really make clear maps back to the manifesto. (Though I didn’t watch the talk. I will when I find a moment)
Thanks, Ben - you have a lovely way of summarising. The talk is worth watching.
I'm not trying to be down on anyone. It just struck me as interesting that I hadn't challenged my own thinking of these things as being basic truths agreed by a wide cross-section of the software world until that point in the video.