19. Recipe for Success
•Focus on Quality
•Reduce Work-in-Progress
•Deliver Often
•Balance Demand against Throughput
•Prioritize
•Attack Sources of Variability to Improve Predictability
26. ARxTA
We believe Agile software development is being
dumbed down, commodified, and is losing its spirit. We
seek to replace the current name with one having two
virtues: first, that it capture more exactly the attitudes
originally behind Agile; second, that it be obscure
enough that no one will assume they already know
what it means and that—amazingly enough!—they are
34. "If you want to build a ship, don't drum up
people to collect wood and don't assign them
tasks and work, but rather teach them to
long for the endless immensity of the sea."
- Antoine de Saint Exupéry
46. Advocacy
• I really like kanban
• I really like XP technical practices
• focus on quality
• everything depends on context, but in context make policies explicit
• if something doesn’t feel right, you are doing something wrong, might be that
thing, but might be you
• if you aren’t getting results, change something
• if you are changing too much too often, you won’t get good results
• measure
• process is a competitive advantage, passion is a competitive advantage,
don’t let process kill passion
• smart people solve problems