Abstract
Dave was not just ranting when he delivered his keynote talk, which was actually his first one since co-authoring the Agile Manifesto in 2001. Sitting in rapt attention in the audience, many of us could relate to what’s been happening. While in 2001, the original signatories of the Agile Manifesto created a powerful and aspirational vision for software development and established its first principles, the current reality seemed to be very distant from what was originally propounded.
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Agile is Dead (Long Live Agility), http://pragdave.me/blog/2014/03/04/time-to-kill-agile/ .
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There is a saying in the Swiss Army manual—when the map and the terrain disagree, trust the terrain!
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Just to illustrate the point, the average profit margins of S&P500 companies is in the range of 15-20%.
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Skunk Works Origin Story, www.lockheedmartin.co.in/us/aeronautics/skunkworks/origin.html.
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Kelly’s 14 Rules and Practices, www.lockheedmartin.co.in/us/aeronautics/skunkworks/14rules.html. Reproduced with permission.
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Some of us have seen this script play a couple times before as well. In the 1980s, it was TQM, SPC, and BPR; in the 1990s, it was CMM, Six Sigma, and ISO9000. Thankfully, we haven’t found the silver bullet yet.
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I have used “agile-but” in a generic sense to represent the viewpoint that quite often people claim they are applying the agile method, but they don’t follow all its guidelines. While I agree with the intent behind this viewpoint, it suggests that there is only right way to being agile.
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One might argue that it is never easy to outsource, and I don’t disagree with that. My point is that with everything else being equal, it is still be easier to outsource a simple problem than to ask someone else to build a complex system for us.
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History: The Agile Manifesto, http://agilemanifesto.org/history.html.
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Varma, T. (2015). Preamble. In: Agile Product Development. Apress, Berkeley, CA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-1067-3_1
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