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Hey guys, just found some more notes & pics of the Agile Manifesto meeting. Some PDFs and some pics. Take a look if you like

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5 years

I'm really liking the writing on this slide. I hadn't thought of it that way, good to see.

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6 years

I think @henrikkniberg finally found the words we were looking for to take the manifesto away from software

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6 years

Some people wonder what dates we really wrote the agile manifesto... I just found the hotel contract, those should reflect the dates accurately :) Feb 12-14, 2001 (I don't recall what we did on the 14th, if we met all day, half day or what)

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4 years

This is the sort of historical revisionism and weak reporting that seriously pisses me off. Sutherland did not invent Scrum in the 80s, Scrum is not the founder of agile, there were 17 people involved, etc etc. That HBR is passing this along is seriously bad history/reporting

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3 years

Agile Manifesto turns 21 this weekend ... It can now go and get drunk :)

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6 years

My first aha from today's Advanced Agile class

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2 years

that

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3 years

in the category of "Things I Never Thought About"

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4 years

saw this: too much.

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2 years

just (finally) made a site atm just a list of resources: articles, videos, interviews, sample code, random links.

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1 year

someone asked what is my currently preferred way of drawing #hexagonalArchitecture , and I shared this: (from the Budapest talk )

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5 years

for those who wonder where Sprint 0 came from, i just noticed these two pics in the original Scrum paper, 1994

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5 years

I have to keep saying this: Agile is NOT "twice the work in half the time". Burn that book title. listen here

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4 years

just sayin

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6 years

Check it out, the Defense Innovation Board has come up with 6 questions to see whether a project fits the term agile or is "agile BS" ! I'm personally pretty happy with these questions: If you had to change one or more, what would you choose?

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6 years

"Collaboration is the new specification" ... seen on a t-shirt :))

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5 years

Agile is not dead, quite the opposite...

Agile is not dead, quite the opposite | Heart of Agile

Three billion people form the global labor pool; 227 million in Europe, 130 million full-time employees in the US, 48% of the US workers are in knowledge work; there are 4.6 million IT workers in the...

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3 years

Possibly the most important thing to think about when looking at Scrum, XP and "Agile" now is that, as they started, they were very anti-management. so when you say, Scrum/XP/Agile helps "management" oppress the workers, recognize that is how bad management coopted the ideas 1/

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5 years

am thinking of doing a webinar (free) since everyone's trapped and I'm bored stiff

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5 years

Looks so true to me (thx John Miller)

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7 years

For the record, origin of "A user story is a promise for a conversation" If anyone can get it on wikipedia, good

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6 years

This thread. Is priceless. Publish that as a comic strip series, Tim, but skip the drawings. Just the text.

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A: How long is a story point in real time? B: How many did you do in your last sprint? A: 23 B: Then, for you, it's a 23rd of a sprint A: But the time before that it was 19 B: Then for you at the time it was 1/19th of a sprint. A: But how long is it really? B: We answered that.

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6 years

Trying to find a web site designer local here. Found one says they do agile. I say I need to be able to talk w the designer & programmer. He goes, no, we use an acct rep so designers can work without disturbance. I'm thinking, Read 3rd value of the agile manifesto?

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5 years

no doubt hazardous to post this here but: for most change initiatives, I find my flowchart predicts the future accurately ... imho the core reason being, they are based on Person A deciding that Person B should change. Net result: * I would LOVE to see counterexamples

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2 years

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5 years

Use cases resurface periodically when business people need to work out what's going on. Here's the use case crib sheet - just copy this as closely as you can and you're probably safe.

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6 years

I don't normally post on these topics, but this is a really important story for men to read. Incl/Especially the thoughtless "helpful" comments from men I recall how surprised I was the first time a woman told me how frightening situations are. Now I practice spotting them.

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6 years

A quick reminder for men: Common events for you can turn into really scary situations for women in a snap. Case in point: This week I listed a clothes dryer on the Letgo app. Because it was a dryer, a neutral meeting location was impractical. I needed it taken out of my house.

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5 years

i totally do not know how anyone does a distributed team project- how on earth do they have real design discussions????? (yes I know some of you claim to be experts at this. I've been trying for 20 years, never can make it work, it just sucks every time)

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5 years

what fun! I just found a slide on #HexagonalArchitecture from 1999 (a talk I gave in South Africa, June 22, 1999). I thought it was pre-2000, but couldn't find when.

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4 years

Getting ready to ski the 20th anniversary

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7 years

Snapshot of the manifesto April, 2001; I like in particular the principles separated out by whom they were addressing: Customers, Managers, Team.

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6 months

Agile elevator pitch (literally). (exec enters elevator) exec: what's agile? me: early delivery of business value. exec: what else? me: reduced bureaucracy exec: sounds good (exits)

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6 years

new colors

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5 years

look what Google did 😄

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7 years

wow. need to research this

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7 years

Two things missing in most agile implementations

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4 years

This says it all (including the pronunciation of my name 😂

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2 years

Dang. I just got mansplained about use cases and agile development 😜🤣

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6 years

My first day teaching all in Spanish. 42 people!!!!

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6 years

"Mistakes are waves, and we are surfers"

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6 years

😂😂😅😬😂😂

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2 years

nice little article on hexagonal architecture with this great drawing by Helene Nguyen

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3 years

how it started, how it's going :)

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6 years

I'm not sure this is really a good idea...

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5 years

"Agile is essentially not about doing more work. It's about generating “more value from less work.”" -- Steve Denning

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6 years

@hgraca @Werkspot @ivarjacobson @unclebobmartin @ericevans0 @jeffreypalermo @gregyoung Nice historical runup! For #HexagonalArchitecture fans, starts at congrats, Herberto for a lovely summary / synopsis

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6 years

Note from a friend: "Got frustrated with waterfall. I organized a switch just within the team doing the work - including myself- to a kanban board on our glass wall with sticky notes. Already have more done in the last 3.5 hours than the prior 3 days." #AgileRocks

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3 months

ah, so there's a term for it

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It occurs to me that most people have never seen the 7 properties of Crystal Clear, so here they are, from the book:

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7 months

Dear people: About use cases Ivar Jacobson, the inventor of use cases and co-creator of component-based development, UML and RUP, and Alistair Cockburn, author of a popular book on use cases and also co-author of the Agile Manifesto, got together to unify, simplify and

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The Other Alistair

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8 years

lovely notes Use cases, invented 1967 reinvented 1987 popular 1997-2007 maybe 2017 time to rediscover

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7 years

I may go back to saying, "Agile is... - early delivery of business value - reduced bureaucracy" and see where that takes us

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2 years

LinkedIn at its finest 🤣

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5 years

finally got driven to write a little article on Agile is Not Dead, Quite the Contrary. Got tired of all the nonsense. Waiting for it to settle down a moment before I post. (Some settling of contents may occur, this package sold by weight not by volume)

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7 years

Agile is less/more efficient than waterfall because... The new view

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3 years

agile has hit homeopathic levels

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4 years

the electricians bid 3 days a large but normal job, we are now at two weeks, with an unknown "2-3 days" left. so don't give me any more of that "software people can't hit estimates" stuff. Electricians just install wires, and they can't do better, even on a 3-day job.

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5 years

#HexagonalArchitecture @JuanMGarridoPaz offered this pic I was looking for, showing the Configurator putting the system together. Haven't seen this pic before, was missing to my mind. Any others with similar /different variation?

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The Other Alistair

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7 years

Twitter mind: who wrote this? I captured it a few months ago, I show it in talks. Now I want to attribute it, if you fiend allow me :) Who?

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8 years

new winner in elephant carpaccio exercise: writing all 20 user stories and laying them out on the value growth curve

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5 months

Both of my new books are now available in epub off my Ecwid store. For the desperate: User stories - Use cases - Story maps Hexagonal Architecture Explained

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3 years

just passing this magnificent image along. Not my correspondent, though maybe I know a few ...

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8 years

Now we're getting somewhere

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10 months

This was a fun little discovery Netflix and now AWS :) #hexagonalarchitecture .

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3 years

we just refined one sentence in the #hexagonalarchitecture definition: Intent Allow an application to equally be driven by users, programs, automated test or batch scripts, and to be developed and tested in isolation from its eventual run-time devices and databases. ...

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The Other Alistair

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4 years

another (2) articles on #HexagonalArchitecture

Ports & Adapters Architecture

The Ports & Adapters Architecture (aka Hexagonal Architecture) was thought of by Alistair Cockburn and written down on his blog in 2005. This is how he defines its goal in one sentence: Allow a…

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The Other Alistair

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regarding measuring programmer productivity. My IBM boss in 1992 said he'd been looking for 20 yrs and found nothing useful, nothing that wasn't easy to hack. Since then I've looked for 30 more yrs and found same. Many stories, but this cartoon says it all:

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4 years

I've been watching this about every 5 minutes, can't let go :)

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I just had to:

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5 years

my papers on software engineering: 2004 2006 2008 2011

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7 years

I like the words "tenacity" and "mutual respect" in there.

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5 years

happy triple firsts at CrossFit, 1st time doing the whole Level 1 (beginner's level) without cheating or cutting corners, first 5x5 dumbbell bench press w 50 lb dumbbells, first time getting these kip-chinups to work :)

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This is why Twitter exists :)) :))

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6 years

Hmm what did I talk about today?

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5 years

Latest drawing

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Trying this out. Did I miss something?

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5 years

my small take on why agile will never be adopted completely, and stop blaming the frameworks or the agile concept (or even culture).

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7 years

Atlantic did a lovely review of the agile manifesto meeting. Caroline Nyce recorded everything and came back a few times w more questions. Carefully researched, neatly written:

The Winter Getaway That Turned the Software World Upside Down

How a group of programming rebels started a global movement

www.theatlantic.com

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5 years

Scrum on a post-it note

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2 years

i love this slide so much, read it twice, three times, daily. from

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7 years

wow. just heard, "our exec hates agile, so he will install SAFe" eeek!! ................

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2 years

i have a question - i've tried explaining #hexagonalarchitecture various times & ways. Still, ppl keep writing articles to explain it, & others go, I'm trying to understand it. so: where's the sticking point? what needs clarification, or what isn't clear? thx for help

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4 years

Reunion w @jeffpatton at Snowbird. Bests

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5 years

Just read this great sentence : "The Agile certification industry has developed a commodification machine, which cannot recover to deliver differentiated approaches for businesses." I think that is true, and quite thought provoking (agile bubble) from

State of Agile using Maps

State of Agile using Maps - Download as a PDF or view online for free

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The Other Alistair

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2 years

@engineering_bae i was once running 8 initiatives. To keep focus, this was my work board. Project > Theme > section > task. Outermost tasks moved close in for most important. Never more than 2 hot tasks / initiative; then selecting the top initiative/top task. Constant attention to priorities.

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The printers finally approved the printing! yippee!!! Should be on Amazon by May 28

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2 years

if you want some hard reading: "Elements to a Theory of Software Development" (2016)

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6 years

loving this interview @Grady_Booch did w John Backus back in 2006. Here are the highlights (for me haha)

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3 years

this is a fabulous article, says it all in a really nice, balanced, accurate way. Encourage everyone to pay attention to this post of @RonJeffries :

Neil C

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3 years

@sbellware Here is a far more eloquent and accurate description of the problem presented in a far less self-righteous way years ago. The insight is not new Note it comes from Ron Jeffries, one of "Agile’s own leaders," which shows the premise is objectively wrong