A Retake on the Agile Manifesto • Humble, Thomas, Badiceanu, Fowler & Kirk • GOTO 2014

This presentation was recorded at GOTO Aarhus 2014
gotocon.com
Martin Fowler - Author, speaker, consultant and general loud-mouth on software development
Katherine Kirk - Independent Consultant & Researcher
Jez Humble - Author of "Continuous Delivery", Principal Consultant, ThoughtWorks
Pragmatic Dave Thomas - Pragmatic Programmer turned Publisher
Tatiana Badiceanu - IT Consultant at the LEGO Group
ABSTRACT
The Agile Manifesto was the spark that brought about a shift in how software was being developed and as a result a wave of new Agile Methodologies such as SCRUM, XP, and Continuous Delivery have been introduced as “better ways of developing software”. Many development organizations have adopted these agile methodologies to improve their communication, increase customer involvement, and create happier and more efficient software teams.
Fast forward to today, 13 years later, a discussion has emerged on what has happened since the Agile Manifesto was first published. Prag Dave Thomas, one of the original 17 authors, has written a blog post which has been heavily discussed online and on twitter titled "Agile is Dead (Long Live Agility) where he points out that the term "Agile" has become a marketing buzzword for companies and consultants to use as a way to commercialize the ideas behind Agile Software Development. He also goes on to suggest that developers should program with “agility” rather then hoping solutions that are simply "coined" as "Agile" will be able to solve some of the difficult problems that they encounter when developing software.
At GOTO, we think it is time to take a closer look at what has happened in the last 13 years since the Agile Manifesto was published and evaluate where the development community is going in the future.
RECOMMENDED BOOKS
Subramaniam & Hunt • Practices of an Agile Developer • amzn.to/2XjbWor
Uncle Bob • Clean Agile • amzn.to/3tpAqb5
Derby, Larsen & Schwaber • Agile Retrospectives • amzn.to/3hB4eNk
Jeff Sutherland • Scrum: The Art of Doing Twice the Work in Half the Time • amzn.to/2X4GQAD
RECOMMENDED BOOKS
Martin Fowler • Patterns of Enterprise Application Architecture • amzn.to/3lp4sIq
Martin Fowler • Analysis Patterns • amzn.to/3Emabar
/ gotocon
/ gotoconference
gotocon.com
Looking for a unique learning experience?
Attend the next GOTO conference near you! Get your ticket at gotopia.tech
Sign up for updates and specials at gotopia.tech/newsletter

[@kpbarrow]

I love the fact the KZbin ads are all selling the exact-style "Monetisation Training Courses" parodied by Dave Thomas

[@mikhailgolubitsky9447]

Dave Thomas's update on Agile Industries is brilliant!! (19:38)

[@mkozaluss]

It was really a pleasure listening to this panel. Thanks!

[@pm71241]

38:35 .... but isn't the way scrum is formulated by nature constraining the people doing the works ability to change the process? In the spirit of Henry Ford ...you can have any process you like, as long as it's scrum. It seems to be scrum encourages a lot of personal investment in the process. Not just by the whole certification thing. Which scrum master would think it was an excellent idea to change the process to do a continuous flow like Kanban?

[@kahnfatman]

21:00 Agile is an ADJECTIVE.

[@firmsoil]

Ah.. this what a modern IT bureaucracy look like.

[@wcuribe]

19:37 Dave Thomas 1:04 Martin Fowler

[@tailfeather57]

READY FOR THE QUIZ FOR DAVE

[@zainlateef6947]

SHOUTOUT TO DAVES CLASS WHADDUP

[@dr3amt780]

This was AWESOME !!

[@iulianursuangel4542]

I love the Agile way of planning the Camino de Santiago. Well done, Tatiana. :)

[@centerfield6339]

I like that after Dave's talk the next person carried on the joke with an Agile consulting-style humblebrag story.

[@asdqwe4427]

Uncle Bob not invited?

[@nickivanov1495]

Agile is an adverb? (21:03) I thought it was an adjective. Sorry, I am a developer. :)

[@johncongerton7046]

+Nick Ivanov "Agilely" is a bit rough

[@xthebumpx]

did he just use the wrong word? even the example he used was an adjective -- "you can talk about an agile dancer"

[@BryonLape]

It is an adjective.

[@BryonLape]

Is Tatiana from Spain?

[@drewmachine]

She's Romanian.

[@BryonLape]

More breathing into the microphone.....

[@DMortician]

Is it just me or is David walking fkin barefoot on stage?

[@Tatiscotty]

39:17 januwarit

[@pm71241]

Yeah... fixed priced software. Either they get crappy software, or they drive their vendor out of business and they get nothing.

[@kourosh234]

Besides Martin Fowler, I don't understand what the rest are talking about!!! Specially calling Steve jobs a psychopath!!!

[@NightmareCrab]

tatianas talk put me to sleep