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Comment on Win Social Media in 7 Easy Steps by pledgerwood

pledgerwood — Tue, 10 Apr 2012 19:14:18 +0000

Platypus fleecing needs change faster than you can approve the documentation for it.

Comment on Win Social Media in 7 Easy Steps by Brian Fenton

Brian Fenton — Tue, 10 Apr 2012 18:42:32 +0000

It’s so easy for non-Agile platypus fleecers to get bogged down in process and documentation…

Comment on Why I Am Self-Righteous by Rebecca Haden

Rebecca Haden — Sun, 01 Apr 2012 01:17:42 +0000

The difference that you’re describing is the difference between righteous anger (because something is wrong) and self-righteous anger (because you’re right and they’re wrong). You’re experiencing righteous anger, and you are not being self-righteous.

I am right about this, though not angry, and you and O’Neill are, I regret to inform you, wrong.

Comment on Why I Am Self-Righteous by Brian Fenton

Brian Fenton — Thu, 29 Mar 2012 20:40:05 +0000

See also: http://w3fools.com/ Not as bad as some of the examples used to be but cited far too often as a resource.

Comment on Why I Am Self-Righteous by Eric J. Reid

Eric J. Reid — Thu, 29 Mar 2012 15:12:33 +0000

Nice. Misinformation from training sources is indeed a scary thing!

Comment on The Relationship of Scrum to Agile by Why I Am Self-Righteous » The Cutting Ledge

Why I Am Self-Righteous » The Cutting Ledge — Thu, 29 Mar 2012 14:18:05 +0000

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Comment on The Relationship of Scrum to Agile by pledgerwood

pledgerwood — Thu, 29 Mar 2012 13:48:36 +0000

About the “self-righteous” tone. Well, you might be right about that. But this issue really riles me.

Comment on The Relationship of Scrum to Agile by pledgerwood

pledgerwood — Thu, 29 Mar 2012 13:19:46 +0000

Oh, definitely. I’d actually say the -formulation- of Scrum was in the 80s with Takeuchi and Nonaka. The actual public adoption of Scrum, though, I’d trace to after the publication of Agile Software Development with Scrum in 2001. XP certainly came way before the Manifesto, and I didn’t mean to imply otherwise. I’ll do some minor edits to make that clearer.

Comment on The Relationship of Scrum to Agile by Ciarán ÓNéill (@C_G_ONeill)

Ciarán ÓNéill (@C_G_ONeill) — Thu, 29 Mar 2012 08:18:26 +0000

Scrum was formulated in 1995 on the basis of a paper titled “The new new product development game” from 1993, XP in the late 1990s, the Agiel Manifesto was written in 2001. But you’re right agile != scrum but scrum = agile (as in all cognac is brandy but not all brandy is cognac). If you’re going to tak e on as self-righteous a tone as above, you really hsould get your facts straight first…

Comment on Agile Means Nothing by pledgerwood

pledgerwood — Wed, 29 Feb 2012 22:06:49 +0000

My name’s Phil, actually, but other than that, I’m sympathetic to your experiences, and that’s why I tend to get frustrated.

For me, being agile boils down to some basic principles (i.e. Agile Manifesto stuff), and practices can be evaluated against that. Some practices support those principles better than others. But whatever practices you want to implement, they have to be implementable.

I see a lot of badly implemented agile way more often than I see decently implemented agile. On the other hand, the market seems flooded with self-proclaimed agile experts. So, how does this happen? How can you have so many “experts” on the one hand, and so much sucking on the other?

I realize my experiences are just my experiences, but I can’t help but think a lot of these companies and individuals proclaiming themselves to be “agile” are pretty much just as lost as everyone else.